n. animal husbandry; the raising and herding of farm animals
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Pastoral character; that which possesses, suggests, or confers a pastoral or rural character.
Word Usage
"In this he'll recognize a strange variation, but a variation all the same, on the good old "pastoralism" — inherited from eighteenth-century English landscape architecture — that played such a large role in the formation of American ideology."