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Alfalfa - grown for hay and forage for animals

Auger - a device used for moving grain.

Barley - a grain crop that is grown for products for human consumption.

Binder - an implement that cuts grain crops and ties the stems into small bundles.

Brand - a logo made from initials and symbols that is marked on the hides of cattle and horses to show who the owner is.

Breaking Horses - taming horses to be saddle horses or to pull wagons, machinery, etc.

Bridles - The head piece on a horse which when joined to the mouth bit and reins allows the rider or driver to control the movement and direction of the horse.

Bronc - an unbroken "Mustang" horse.

Bundle - a quantity of hay that is packed together and tied with twine.

Cayuse - an unbroken range horse.

Chaff - stalks that are separated from the seed heads of grain crops when threshing.

Chaps - a protective cover made from leather, angora, canvas to protect horseback riders legs when travelling through bushes.

Corral - fences built to enclose animals.

Coulee - is a deep steep-sided narrow valley formed by erosion, commonly found in south western Canada. Some coulees are dry for most of the year; others may contain small streams.

Cowboy - a ranch hand who makes his living on horseback working with cattle.

Cure - seed heads on crops that dry in the fields to make a harder grain.

Cutter - a sleigh mode of transport that moves easily on ice and snow in winter.

Disc - a round curved wheel fitted onto a plow or seeder that cuts through the sod.

Dip tank - tanks filled with a mixture of liquids of sulphur and lime that cattle would walk through to help prevent or cure infections such as mange.

Disc Drill - an implement that makes furrows for the seeds to drop into.

Evener - in vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars are hung to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used side by side.

Farm - a place where crops and/or animals are raised.

Furrow - a trench in the earth made by a plow.

Gangs - when two or more farm implements are used at the same time to plow a field.

Grainery - a small wooden building used to store grain.

Freights - traincars or railcars that carry crops, goods and supplies by railroad.

Green Feed - oats that are cut without maturing.

Gumbo - a type of soil that holds water making it very heavy and sticky.

Hay rack - an open sided wagon to transport crops.

Heifers - a young female calf.

Hitches - a device to attach the horses to the farm implements or wagons they are pulling.

Homestead - a quarter section (160 acres) of land.

Horn - a part on the western type of saddle.

Lariat - a long light rope used with a running noose to catch livestock and other animals.

Lasso - to capture with a rope.

Mange - an irritation of the skin by tiny mites that affects animals with fur coats.

Mare - a female horse.

Mustang - a small, hardy wild horse of the North American plains descended from Arabian horses brought to America by Spanish explorers.

Neck Yoke - a bar by which the end of the tongue of a wagon or carriage is suspended from the collars of the harnesses.

Oats - a grain crop grown for feed for animals.

Outfit - horses and farm machinery needed to plow, seed or harvest.

Prairie Wool - grasses that grown naturally on the prairie with high nutrition.

Plow or Plough - an implement that cuts into the ground to slice, break apart, turn and lift the sod. Spellings are different according to the manufacturer of the plow.

"Proved up" or "Proving up" - when a farmer has met the requirements (under the Dominion Lands Act) to own their homestead to sign the papers for ownership.

Ranch - a place where cattle, horses and other animals are raised and bred as working
animals or for products like meat.

Rake, Dump or Hay - an implement that gathers rows of cut hay into piles.

Reins - usually made from leather, long narrow straps attached to the horse's bridle that the rider will use to control the directions & movements of the horse.

Rod - a unit of length.

Saddle - a fitted seat attached to the back and buckled to the underbelly of a horse for horseback riding.

Saddle Horse - a horse that has been trained to be ridden.

"Sally up" - a venturing forth, a jaunt.

Section - is an area of land that is one mile square, containing 640 acres.

Shafts - two long parallel poles between which a horse is harnessed to a vehicle.

Shorthorn - an English breed of short-horned beef cattle.

Sod Shack - a crude dwelling made from upturned prairie sod that is cut and laid like bricks to make the walls.

Stallion - is a male horse used for breeding when it is three years of age.

Steel - a term used for the parallel rails (made from steel or iron) that when joined together make up the railroad track for trains.

Stooks / Stooking - piling crops with their grain heads upright in small stacks to dry.

Team - two or more horses used side by side to pull a wagon, farm implements, carriages, etc.

Thresher - a machine that separates grain heads from the stalks.

Wagon - usually a four wheeled method of transportation for crops, supplies and people.

Wheat - a grain crop that is dried to be made into products for human consumption.