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Show $girt:l:lla to bEl a prQtitdable bu.sint's. rt:l.iing of alfalfa for $'&e4 was Alfalf& hy "Wtl.e cut ,lot'e than Q:n6 eaeh season depe:nding tt.t"?on ,»:e.tbel1 (;o.l;cL t.iona and vt$'l: avlable but ¥l'her! it 143S gr()'tQl to'!*' seElti" !h gt'll @t alfalfa for uy st.ee.dill' :l'ipend crop was il&tessacy·. in:er$t).sed fr'O·n'l 160 on, as otte ,refStut 'Of tha dQpletion of natttt'$l grasseG. . a latl lo:unt of ('.l(rVel 1-1 &l3.Q grom. as torage crp.l tivCl€1toek ing in J?avant 1':''" t»xmed em: :t:mportant faeet ot the piOtu6W." eoonomy o... tir$t Bt.tl.$r brght 1d. tb th$l· hOl11efS.t oZten, cattle, $heeP1 hQ d p®ltrr. P.ot'$es wer*, of course, anmely imprtan.t beeallse they we u.sed to:, ;riding." p-ulling the threshing at 'lltH!"t by tl"&l'4Pl1q" hd they tt1t1li$h.¢ tib$. FOwer 'tihi<3h t.t7t'n the meGle of sUl:1!hum $:$ ltU as otll:e =.11a. V!rtllal'.J7 'l1{eJ tl, 11ad at least one saddle hot'" a.ild 006 work ho1';$ aad 4 mQtlts waltb. tlStts meesured by the number h$ c"V$OO, b1lg the early '1<tJt'rJrs, bfVNe, !ran at lQrge in iwrdfJ on the public: do_ill {lSnd not \uldel' o'tUti"t"a4<iQn 'Within the vallq) or $omet:bnttlJ$ g:r's$d ill the nU1,ttrlila dtn:illg th $1.\l'fIDl ntbe. 2 AltMntIl the numbe in,$$d fl"Qlfl 18-60 to 1910 tb. 14_ a. period Qf time th$ 1870' s that the n:r daGLtne'Ci dt.. to drou.ght eooditions durlltig OxGu, Gt areat $iu.rilce duril'lg M 1:l@ly history of the lqj gr't1au7 d.$olint1i m i!npQrt<lJh a fhe:ae sW.m$lsj stronger tb$.n hor$, ;o'Uld pull. 1':se:vi8r 10M but weN not as '£4S·1I,. Gx t6anl$ were ut:1lig fot" hattling corwuQdi tis and 'Vle.4:,e aommonl.y' loled ft,)i' tb$ pulling 0 f plOllS Wi t.b hoa"ses wre togethe tJbe n'Q1Db ·t eun aulr dee;re6$d until 1900 me¥} rorted (tablG 3,). ta VaJ.l&11';i._s p"e'&d both beet end |
