Sentence:  ... but the fact remains that my range cattle, because of the <WSD>chousing</WSD> which they received at the hands of the troops and the fright that they had, were caused to go into a period of considerable range deﬁciency without the ﬂesh with which they should have entered this period. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To cause undesirable activity in livestock, such as running. (from late 19th c.)