| 单词 | draft animal |
| 例句 | If you move often and lack vehicles or draft animals, you confine your possessions to babies, weapons, and a bare minimum of other absolute necessities small enough to carry. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Inka masonry amazed the conquistadors, who could not understand how they put together such enormous stones without mortar or draft animals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z To feed them, he would need to bring carts and wagons, and draft animals to haul them— horses, oxen, dogs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She explained that bank barns, common in the area, divide livestock and draft animals on the lower level from the upper level, used for storage and threshing. Journeys: In Iowa, Working to Save Historic Barns 2012-06-01T19:11:06Z In other parts of Indonesia, the buffalo are draft animals, but here they are venerated and carefully cared for. In Indonesia, Many Islands and Many Faces 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z The Cowan’s lot, which had belonged to the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, came with nail-studded original wheels and a few fragments of yokes that soldiers and draft animals used to drag the weapon. Antiques: Antiques: ?Playing House? Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum 2012-02-23T23:23:42Z Second, while they are much more efficient than farming with hand tools or plowing with draft animals, tractors are worse for soil fertility than their “primitive” alternatives. What your organic market doesn’t want you to know: The dark truth about quinoa 2014-04-24T11:50:00Z To help these new farms, the government gave the owners draft animals, tools, and seeds. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z They tended both their own and their lord’s land, sharing draft animals and farm implements to undertake the planting and harvesting of crops. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z They were used for hunting, for warmth, for protection, as draft animals and perhaps as companions in the afterlife. Bones of ancient native dogs found at Jamestown 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z The farmers tilled their fields with hoes instead of plows, since draft animals were likely to die from diseases carried by the tsetse fly. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Oxen were important draft animals, with their brawn pressed into service to till the land for rice, the foundation of the Japanese diet. What Does the End of Beef Mean for Our Sense of Self? 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Sub-Saharan Africa was a hot and humid home to microbes unknown to Europeans that sickened both them and their draft animals. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Farmers harvested domesticated crops of peas, dates, and cotton, harnessing the power of draft animals such as the water buffalo. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z On the other side, soldiers and draft animals strain to drag artillery to within range of the fight. Opinion | A perfect memorial for an imperfect man, Ulysses S. Grant 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Canalboats, pulled along a tow path by draft animals, carried cargo and passengers to and from the mountains of the interior. ‘Nobody famous slept here,’ but the old stone house on the Mall has endured 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, those who couldn't afford a draft animal might work just as hard as their ox-owning peers, but they would never earn as much. Long before hedge funds, cattle drove inequality, study says 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Rinderpest came to the Philippines from the United States, for example, swiftly killing the draft animals of Filipino farmers and making it harder for them to grow adequate amounts of food. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Hindus believe these animals to be sacred but also used them as draft animals on farms. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Canal boats, pulled along a tow path by draft animals, carried cargo and passengers to and from the mountains of the interior. A 47-ton witness to Washington’s past is slowly inched to the present 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Men plow the fields with their draft animals. Myanmar propaganda? Army takes media on reporting trip 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z At first, she did domestic chores and was given lessons in weaving, but as she grew, she was tasked with cutting wood, plowing fields and dragging loaded canal boats like a draft animal. Harriet Tubman fled a life of slavery in Maryland. Now a new visitor center opens on the land she escaped. 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z They left the bones and scraps to local cooks, who were used to cows as draft animals but soon found a way to turn the leftover bits into delicious noodle soup. How to make a great bowl of pho at home 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z However, a draft animal cruelty law remains mired in China's legislature and prosecution of dog thieves and those violating animal transport laws remains lax, activists complain. China Dog Eating Festival Criticized 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z In Exodus 20 the commandment includes animals — okay, draft animals — but I don’t own any mules or oxen. Sleeping with (Stuffed) Animals 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z At the end of the path on the edge of a barren field abutting the only paved road for miles around, the elder pointed to a crudely welded tiller with a harness for draft animals. At War Blog: Days of Tea and Honey: Memories of a Quiet Iraq 2014-04-16T14:07:35Z Survivors were farm families who had lost their harvested crops, rice seeds for the next season, their draft animals, and had no means to replant for the future. How to Design Products for People Making $2 a Day 2013-02-08T17:15:04.910Z Whatever else horses are - draft animals, companions, transport - their meat is also delicious and affordable. Diner’s Journal Blog: Outcry Scuttles Plan to Put Horse on Menu at M. Wells Dinette 2012-10-05T04:43:57Z The road was overgrown by the bushes, except the side-tracks made by the draft animals and the ruts of wheels which marked occasional lines in its course. From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America 2011-12-28T03:00:39.977Z A rude pier had been constructed there, and there their freight would be landed and then dragged up to them along the beach in a carabao cart; for they had one draft animal. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z And even now the inhabitants of Clair had the habit of likewise dwelling with their draft animals and cattle! Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross Doing Her Best For Uncle Sam 2011-06-14T02:00:23.757Z A large round beam was secured through the middle of the central roller and attached to two long sweeps that extended outward to a circular pathway intended for the draft animals. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z Even in places that do not depend on herding for their livelihood, rinderpest could be lethal because it killed draft animals and disrupted agriculture. Bovine equivalent of measles is eradicated 2011-05-28T01:29:30Z "All the same," she said, "that does not justify the use of cows as draft animals!" The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z Correctly shod draft animals did not go lame easily and they worked harder because they were comfortable. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z The growth of productive livestock herds, excluding draft animals, lagged very substantially in relation to the increase in population, at least through 1966. Area Handbook for Albania Behind it were corrals filled with draft animals and sheds full of carts and wagons. Bring Me His Ears The draft animals are usually small oxen or ponies, called "salt marsh tackies," as they are left to pick their living from the marshes. The Negro Farmer If draft animals are employed the load is usually about one fourth of that which the animals could actually move by their maximum effort for a short period. American Rural Highways Of course, he thought, there were draft animals over in the western sector. The Weakling Thus, European implements and draft animals did not appear until comparatively late. Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 They could be numbered by the tens of thousands and actually impeded the progress of the caravan and threatened constant danger from their blind, unreasoning stampedes which the draft animals seemed anxious to join. Bring Me His Ears "Do you mean to say," began the owner of the Diamond X ranch, "that you only wanted to use my cattle as you might use oxen—as draft animals?" The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X But through the long winter the dog is practically the only draft animal that can be utilised by the inhabitants of those regions. Winter Adventures of Three Boys It was, however, fitted with a big bronze ring to which a draft animal could be hitched. Naudsonce The force consisted of two hundred and fifty Europeans, and twelve hundred Sepoys, who were forced to drag with them, having no draft animals, two field pieces and a waggon of ammunition. With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire This especially was a Pawnee trick, and especially adept were the Pawnees in creeping up to a herd of draft animals and stampeding the whole bunch. Bring Me His Ears As there are no draft animals in Man�boland, no plows, harrows, or other implements which require animals are made use of. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir A half dozen others, on farms ranging from 200 to 1,000 acres, raise thoroughbreds or draft animals. History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia They have draft animals; when we were coming down, I saw a few of them pulling pole travoises. Naudsonce They stuck in the mud, with draft animals and all. In the Shadow of Death This was welcome news, as it gave them an opportunity to let the draft animals rest and feed well in preparation for the long prairie haul ahead. Bring Me His Ears The cattle are cows, buffaloes, and oxen, the two latter used as draft animals, and as agricultural workers. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East Many draft animals are oppressed with heavy burthens. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 The demand for horses is chiefly for the heavy draft animals for use in the logging camps and on the streets of the cities, and the demand is fairly well supplied, chiefly in eastern Washington. A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 The guarding of the cattle herds now required continual exertion, and if any weak or crippled draft animal fell out its bones were clean within the hour. The Covered Wagon He deals in draft animals in Independence, has the name of being slippery, and is known as Ephriam Schoolcraft. Bring Me His Ears Thus far the mule was the reindeer of draft animals, and mule trains were forming to hurry the needful supplies to the soldiers. An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) No real effort was made to check it prior to the American occupation, and it caused enormous losses, both directly by killing large numbers of beef cattle and indirectly by depriving farmers of draft animals. The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) Like the animals upon which the warriors were mounted, the heavier draft animals wore neither bit nor bridle, but were guided entirely by telepathic means. A Princess of Mars The fall in output and in imports is reflected in the deterioration of food supplies, shortages of electricity, inability to get spare parts, and the replacement of motor-driven vehicles by bicycles and draft animals. The 1995 CIA World Factbook There were not enough draft animals in all England to plough and cultivate land to raise crops in sufficient volume to make even a dent in the food imports. My Life and Work The beef cattle, milch cows, and heifers were used as draft animals, but were of little service, and it was found necessary to place another sack of flour on each hand-cart. The Great Salt Lake Trail There were in the company not half enough draft animals for the arduous march, and but an insufficient number of able-bodied men to tend the camps. The Story of "Mormonism" Most of the draft animals used in Japan are either cows, bulls or stallions; at least we saw very few oxen and few geldings. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals. The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America The scythe and cradle had been supplanted by the mower and reaper; horse harrows, cultivators, and rakes had transferred much of the physical exertion of farming to the draft animals. The Agrarian Crusade; a chronicle of the farmer in politics |
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