stockmann.

1806 Sydney Gaz. 16 Nov. 1/3 The evidence of the stockmen, who did not attend [the inquest], being essential.

1830 Hobart Town Almanack 103 A group of Mr. E. Lord's stockmen.

1862 R. Henning Let. 2 Nov. (1966) 113 Mr Palmer was not at home, but we were received by an amiable stockman.

?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 37 Agricultural Labourer…Stockman.

1891 T. E. Kebbel Old & New Eng. Country Life 167 Shepherds, waggoners and stockmen are paid at a higher rate.

1900 Oxf. Times 24 Nov. 1/4 Wanted,—Steady, Industrious Married Man for Breeding Flock, and as Stockman.

1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xi. 100 The subordinate hands on the station—..the groom, stockman, rouseabouts—live in the men's huts, close behind the homestead.

1929 K. S. Prichard Coonardoo 5 Nowadays..aboriginal stockmen usually receive a small wage as well as payment in kind by rations.

1944 Living off Land: Man. Bushcraft iv. 94 Before the sun rises..the stockman's ‘boys’ are back with the horses.

1962 A. Upfield Will of Tribe iii. 27 ‘You have two white stockmen.’.. ‘Just the two,’ replied the cattleman.

1978 O. White Silent Reach xviii. 191 ‘Where are the stockmen?’.. ‘Out looking for the Dalziel girl.’

1856 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 22 Such a division of labour between farmers and stockmen, and between farmers and dairymen, as has been found to work well in some parts of Scotland and England.

1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 137 In those days the farmer who supplied the best food and the most whisky was accounted the best stockman.

1959 Farmer & Stockbreeder 22 Dec. (Suppl.) 7/2 As science develops…the art of good farming will remain—the art of knowing when and how to work the soil, the art of stockmanship.

1969 J. G. S. Donaldson & F. Donaldson Farming in Brit. Today ii. xviii. 170 Efficient planning of the battery can almost eliminate the need for skilled stockmanship.

1979 Daily Tel. 1 May 11/2 Stockmanship, record-keeping, observation, simple disease control..will be the necessary tools of his [sc. the pigman's] trade.