Across
- 4. a large yard containing pens and sheds, typically adjacent to a slaughterhouse, in which livestock is kept and sorted.
- 6. he production of crops and farm animals for sale, usually with the use of modern technology: commercial farming methods
- 7. a town or city in a cattle-raising area of western North America.
- 8. subsistence farming, a form of farming in which nearly all of the crops or livestock raised are used to maintain the farmer and the farmer's family, leaving little, if any, surplus for sale or trade.
- 9. wire with clusters of short, sharp spikes set at intervals along it, used to make fences or in warfare as an obstruction.
Down
- 1. the extreme limit of settled land beyond which lies wilderness, especially referring to the western US before Pacific settlement.
- 2. a large area of grazing land without fences or other barriers.
- 3. a town undergoing rapid growth due to sudden prosperity.
- 5. an identifying mark burned on livestock or (formerly) criminals or slaves with a branding iron.
- 7. the activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale.