Glossary

Meat from the back and sides of a pig that has been smoked and salted.

A widely-distributed group of typically one-celled microorganisms, many of which produce diseases. Many are active in processes of fermentation, the conversion of dead organic matter into soluble food for plants and the fixing of atmospheric nitrogen.

A large package of raw or finished material tightly bound with twine or wire and often wrapped.

Wire used to hold together square bales of some types of cut grass or straw.

Twisted strands of fence wire having sharp barbs at regular intervals.

A cereal grass grown for animal feed in the Oklahoma Panhandle.

The outer covering of the woody stems, branches, roots and main trunks of trees and other woody plants as distinguished from the inner wood.

A building on the farm where animals stay when it is cold and where farm equipment and hay is stored.

Not producing; lacking vegetation; fruitless.

To trade goods or services without the exchange of money as payment.

The horny, projecting structure forming the mandibles of a bird, especially one that is strong, sharp, and useful in striking and tearing; a bill.

A system of estimating wind velocities invented by Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort of the British Navy.

The solid rock that underlies all soil, sand, clay, gravel and loose material on the earth's surface.

Flower or vegetable plant planted in beds.

The flesh of a cow, steer, heifer or bull.

Type of cattle raised mainly for meat.

Castrated male beef animal used for meat purposes.

A species cross between bison and domestic or exotic cattle of any breed.

The yellowish to dark-brown wax secreted by the honeybee for making honeycombs.

The bell-shaped fruit of the bell pepper plant.

A poisonous plant native to parts of Europe and Asia.

Insects considered helpful to the farmer or gardener because they aid pollination (bees, butterflies) or help control harmful insects (lady beetles, dragonflies).

The angle that one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles.

Farm implement used to cut stalks of ripened grain then tie the bundle of stalks together with binder twine.

A twining or creeping species of plant, also glorybind or wild morning glory.

Large containers used to store smaller items.

Capable of being decomposed by natural processes.

The amount of living matter in a specified habitat.

A hoofed mammal of western North America, having a dark-brown coat, a shaggy mane and short, curved horns.

April 14, 1935, the day that is associated with the beginning of the Dust Bowl years.

To remove color from, as by means of a chemical agent.

A detailed plan of action.

A mature male swine.

The fruit of a cotton plant which contains the seeds of the plant.

A small, grayish, long-snouted beetle of Mexico and the southern United States, having destructive larvae that hatch in and damage cotton bolls.

The large, very destructive larva of a kind of moth, also called corn earworm, because it is harmful to growing corn as well as cotton and other growing plants.

A large roll of cloth of a definite length, as it comes from the loom.

Moved suddenly or nervously.

Any of numerous anatomically distinct structures making up the skeleton of a vertebrate animal. There are more than 200 different bones in the human body.

A classification of cattle breeds usually descended from the Indian Brahman breed and distinguished by a slick hair coat and distinctive crest (or hump) behind the head on the neck. Bos Indicus cattle are also more tolerant of heat and insects than other breeds.

A classification of English cattle breeds distinguished by a long thick coat and small crest (or hump) behind the head on the neck.

A person who studies the science of plants.

Of or belonging to the family Bovidae, which includes hoofed, hollow-horned ruminants such as cattle, sheep, goats, and buffaloes.

An animal of the family Bovidae; cattle.

A breed of cattle developed in the southern United States from stock originating in India having a hump between the shoulders and a large fold of loose skin hanging from the neck.

The outer layers of the grain of cereals such as wheat, removed during the process of milling and used as a source of dietary fiber.

A secondary woody stem or limb growing from the trunk or main stem of a tree, bush or shrub or form another secondary limb.

A mark indicating identity or ownership, burned, tattooed or painted on an animal's coat or hide.

A metal rod heated and used for branding.

A breed of black, horned cattle, 3/8 Brahman and 5/8 Angus.

The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.

(n) A group of animals descending from a common ancestry and possessing certain common characteristics which distinguish it from any other group. (v) To cause to reproduce, especially by controlled mating and selection. To develop new or improved strains in animals or plants.

A set period of time when male animals and female animals are placed together for breeding.

A short, coarse, stiff hair or hairlike part.

A tender young chicken suitable for broiling.

A wild or semiwild horse or pony of western North America.

Unpolished rice, retaining the germ and the yellowish outer layer containing the bran.

A fleshy annual herb with seeds that can be ground into flour.

Any of several oxlike Old World mammals of the family Bovidae having massive, downward-curving horns.

Adult male bovine mammal.

Method used to get cattle to lie down by grabbing the horns and twisting the head until the animal falls to the ground.

A unit of volume or capacity in the US Customary System used in dry measure and equal to 4 pecks, 2,150.42 cubic inches, or 35.24 liters - about the size of a round laundry basket.

Person at the supermarket who cuts meat into pieces for selling. Sometimes called a meat cutter.

To get something by trading money for it.

Something produced in the making of something else.