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Example sentences for "agricultural pursuits"

  • The settlers, brought together at haphazard by destitution and not by their knowledge of agricultural pursuits, had wasted much time and labour through ignorance, incapacity, and insufficiency of proper tools.

  • In 1888, however, he removed with his family to Walla Walla county, Washington and the remainder of his life was devoted to agricultural pursuits.

  • In his new home he resumed the work of tilling the fields and he is now engaged in agricultural pursuits in Benton county, where he has lived since 1913.

  • He spent his youth amid rural surroundings in his native state, his time largely being devoted to agricultural pursuits, while later he took up the profession of teaching but regarded this merely as an initial step to other professional labor.

  • The father was a carpenter by trade but gave his attention largely to agricultural pursuits in Illinois.

  • He has always been engaged in agricultural pursuits, in which he has achieved much success.

  • He returned to the farm and has always followed agricultural pursuits.

  • Mr. Booth has always been identified with agricultural pursuits.

  • There he engaged in agricultural pursuits, but was active in preaching and lecturing against slavery, intemperance, gambling, and other popular vices.

  • With his professional labors he joined a considerable attention to agricultural pursuits.

  • After having graduated at Middlebury College, Vermont, and studied law at Yale College, he engaged in agricultural pursuits.

  • He received a common-school education, and engaged in agricultural pursuits.

  • They are all reported as being "peaceable, well disposed," and "actively engaged in agricultural pursuits.

  • Some, however, have recently turned their attention to agricultural pursuits, and are now raising stock, and most of the varieties of grain produced by their white neighbors.

  • The Sissetons and Wahpetons, who were by a treaty of 1867 placed on reservations in Dakota, are "industrious, and fast advancing in agricultural pursuits.

  • Her father was the Sieur Jehan Soreau, and her mother Catherine de Maignelais, who were quiet country people and occupied in agricultural pursuits.

  • At the end of the war General Morgan retired to his plantation at Saratoga, and devoted himself to agricultural pursuits.

  • On the other hand, only 3 per cent were employed in agricultural pursuits.

  • More than half the population is earning a livelihood wholly or partially by agricultural pursuits.

  • Under the topic of the Japanese farmer, we examined the reasons given for the discrimination against Japanese in agricultural pursuits.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    abandon the; agricultural college; agricultural distress; agricultural exports; agricultural implements; agricultural life; agricultural output; agricultural people; agricultural processing; agricultural produce; agricultural production; agricultural products; agricultural pursuits; agricultural work; ceased speaking; economic life; great concourse; great trees; more money; name given; ordinary seaman; porcelain crucible; present usage; pull down; reign over; single flower