Cattle and Cotton

4. a way or system of doing something
7. barbed-wire fence of miles long used in the Texas Panhandle to mark the northern and southern limits of a rancher's land to prevent livestock from drifting off the land and wild cattle from drifting onto it and competing for food
9. the small, hardy horse of the West, descended from horses brought by the Spanish
10. the Spanish word for "rancher"
11. left unplanted for one or more growing seasons
12. money charged in exchange for a service or permission to take an action
13. a group of investors who join together to fund a business
16. the movement of cattle in large herds to a stockyard or market
17. a number of things or events that are arranged or happen one after the other
18. a farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or in shares of the crop
19. a ranch hand who takes care of saddle horses
20. a set of partly unreal ideas associated with a person or object

1. a place where livestock are penned before they are slaughtered or shipped elsewhere
2. a state of enforced isolation designed to prevent the spread of disease or pests
3. to encourage people to take part in an activity
5. a farmer who, in exchange for labor, is provided with seed tools, living quarters, and food and receives a share of the value of the crop
6. a serious crime for which punishment may be imprisonment or death
8. a person who moves livestock overland to market
14. a farming approach that uses careful plowing to keep loose soil on top, slowing evaporation to keep soil moist
15. public land that could be used by anyone, usually for grazing cattle
17. any person, place, or thing that supplies something that is wanted or needed