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Potpourri
100
This was the invention that most contributed to the end of the open range.
What is barbed wire?
100
This was a breed of cattle with horns six feet or more across.
What is the longhorn?
100
Cattle were branded to show this.
What is ownership?
100
Foreign ranchers moved to Texas AND ranchers launched cattle drives because of this.
What are large profits?
100

This was the most important agricultural crop in Texas between the end of the Civil War and 1900.

What is cotton?
200
This was a technique of deep plowing in order to leave loose soil on top of the ground.
What is dry farming?
200
These were the holding pens for livestock where they would be sold or slaughtered.
What are stockyards?
200
Cattle drives were begun to find this.
What are better markets?
200
Severe blizzards and long droughts in Texas in the 1880s led to a decline in this.
What is ranching?
200

This is a farming technique in which farmers leave a field unplanted for one or more growing seasons

What is fallow?
300
This invention contributed to making fenced pastures possible.
What are windmills?
300
Cattle were first brought to America by explorers from this country.
What is Spain?
300
He was the man who convinced the railroads and cattle drovers to meet further west to avoid Missouri.
Who is Joseph G. McCoy?
300

Cattle ranches that Mexican Americans owned in the late 1800s were mostly found in this part of Texas.

What is South Texas?
300
This is a farmer who pays rent for land only, either in cash or in shares of the crop.
What is a tenant farmer?
400
After the Civil War, many plantations were divided into these.
What are smaller farms?
400
Anglo American cattle brands were often made in the likeness of this.
What is the rancher's initials?
400
On a trail drive, the wrangler’s job was this.
What is take care of the horses?
400
This was the path upon which cattle were driven between Texas and Missouri.
What is the Sedalia Trail?
400

This is a farmer who does not provide his own tools, land, or seed and must go into debt to the landowner.

What is a sharecropper?
500

Richard King and Mifflin Kenedy were among the first Texas ranchers to do this.

 
What is fence their land?
500
Some Missouri farmers reacted to trail driving by doing this.
What is blocking the cattle trails / putting up fences?
500
This is a person who moves cattle or sheep to market.
What is a drover?
500

Over five million cattle were driven north on this trail that ended in Abilene, Kansas, from 1867 to 1884.

What is the Chisholm Trail?
500

This is a farming technique of growing different crops in a series on the same land.

What is crop rotation?