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small farmer

NOUN
  1. a farmer on a small farm

How To Use small farmer In A Sentence

  • Of course the 'nester' or 'punkin roller,' as we contemptuously called the small farmer, began sifting in here and there in spite of our guns, but he was only a mosquito bite in comparison with the trouble which our cow-punchers stirred up. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West
  • Up until the 1920s, in the mountain ranges of Westmoreland and south into Fayette, many small farmers subsisted on bear meat, preferable to venison, and considered by many to be juicier and better than beef.
  • The famine originated with the recurrent failure of the potato crop, devastating the Irish cottier and small farmer classes.
  • The freemen were the inhabitants of chartered towns, and in some countries the yeomanry, or small farmers, who did not hold their lands by a regular feudal tenure. General History for Colleges and High Schools
  • Electrical dryers are expensive and unaffordable to most small farmers.
  • They encountered considerable resistance on the part of small farmers and others, particular in mountain communities.
  • At the start of the period the region was overwhelmingly agrarian, with small farmers working arable land in the river valleys, keeping livestock in the meadows, and sometimes working for the lumber industry.
  • Electrical dryers are expensive and unaffordable to most small farmers.
  • Debt-driven small farmers and landless workers have left this district in larger numbers this season.
  • The furious debates over power ‘reforms’ have raged mostly around the massive hikes in tariffs that squeeze millions of small farmers.
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