SuaviloquyToday’s word

husbandry

Husbandry, n.

1. Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift. There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. Shak.

2. The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming. Husbandry supplieth all things necessary for food. Spenser.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for husbandry; he lists it under agriculture.

Where he writes about it:

Husbandry is a general word for any form of practical agriculture, but is now chiefly poetical. — from agriculture