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Mixed farming   /mɪkst fˈɑrmɪŋ/   Listen
Mixed farming

noun
1.
Growing crops and feed and livestock all on the same farm.





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"Mixed farming" Quotes from Famous Books



... tyranny of Wheat, besides being shocked at farmers who used clean bright straw for fuel, and made bonfires of their chaff-hills. 'You're 'way behind the times,' said he. 'There's fruit and dairying and any quantity of mixed farming going forward all around—let alone irrigation further West. Wheat's not our only king by a long sight. Wait till you strike such and such a place.' It was there I met a prophet and a preacher in the shape of a Commissioner of the Local Board of ...
— Letters of Travel (1892-1913) • Rudyard Kipling
... Grant, "as I've tried to tell you, it works out very much like this. It was known that this land was specially adapted to mixed farming quite a few years ago, but the men who ran their cattle over it never drove a plough. You want to know why? Well, I guess it was for much the same reason that an association of our big manufacturers bought up the patents of an improved process, and for a long while never made an ounce of ...
— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss


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