Chapter 19

2. a farming approach that uses careful plowing to keep loose soil on top, slowing evaporation to keep soil moist
6. a way or system of doing something
7. the small, hardy horse of the West descended from horses brought by the Spanish
9. a farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or in shares of the crop
10. the movement of cattle in large herds to a stockyard or market
12. the Spanish word for rancher
13. 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
16. a state of enforced isolation designed to prevent the spread of disease or pets
17. barbed-wire fence dozens of miles long used in the Texas Panhandle to mark the northern and southern limits of a rancher's land and wild cattle from drifting off the land and wild cattle from drifting onto it and competing for food
19. a ranch hand who takes care of saddle horses
20. a person who moves livestock overland to market

1. a group of investors who join together to fund a business
3. a place where livestock are penned before they are slaughtered or shipped elsewhere
4. to encourage people to part in an activity
5. a set of partly unreal ideas associated with a person or object
8. a number of things or events that are arranged or happen one after the other
11. public land that could be used by anyone, usually for grazing cattle
14. an person, place, or thing that supplies something that is wanted or needed
15. a serious crime for which punishment may be imprisonment or death
18. left unplanted for one or more growing seasons