The word "husbandman" is a correct and valid word in modern written English.
It can be used to describe a person who manages a farm or an agricultural estate. Example sentence: The husbandman was proud of the outstanding crop yield that he achieved this season.
One contemporary, Gruffudd ab Adda, went much further toward a modern conception of nature; another, Iolo Goch, in his poem to the husbandman shows traces of English ideas, as seen in Piers Plowman.
Shennong, called the founder of Chinese medicine, was also known as the Divine Husbandman.
Boer, (Dutch: "husbandman," or "farmer"), a South African of Dutch, German, or Huguenot descent, especially one of the early settlers of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State.
Wright was educated at Lombard College, Galesburg, Ill., and at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and, after earning his doctorate in zoology at Harvard University (Sc.D., 1915), he worked as a senior animal husbandman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1915 25).
Twenty years later, with the Protestant Elizabeth firmly on the throne, English Catholic exiles working from Douai and Rheims in France began producing a new Catholic English Bible, on the principle that if English translations were now unstoppable (and "in the hands of every husbandman, artificer, prentice, boys, girls, mistress, maid") then they should at least get it right.
Also in the running were Sanskrit scholar Vaughan Pilikian, poet and clinical neuropsychologist Sean Haldane, Guardian journalist Stephen Moss (campaign slogan: "Yes we scan!"), medic Robert P Lacey and Michael George Gibson, who describes himself as a "poet, husbandman and tunemaker".
Yet half a lifetime later, that unlettered ex-husbandman ruled over a theocratic empire as large as France.
Nesting colonies of the rock dove (Columba livia) were farmed by Neolithic husbandmen for food, and gradually the process of rearing young in confinement led to the production of domesticated strains.
A story about a vineyard whose ungrateful husbandmen keep killing the servants sent to them is an anti-establishment, even an anti-clerical story, but it isn't so obvious as to get him in trouble.
The manuals range from small pamphlets for country housewives, to huge illustrated folios designed by commoners to be read by queens, through a range of works for husbandmen and early modern DIY enthusiasts.
Then, as Ike rattled over his fields, he could chat back & forth with husbandmen the nation over.
