Examples of livestock in the following topics:
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- The use of livestock branding allowed the cattle owned by different ranchers to be identified and sorted.
- Along with ranchers came the need for agricultural crops to feed both humans and livestock.
- Until the invention of barbed wire in the 1870s, it was more practical to fence the livestock out of developed land, rather than to fence it in.
- This occurred often without any regard to land ownership or other public needs, such as mail delivery and movement of other kinds of livestock.
- In the winter of 1886-1887, as livestock that were already stressed by reduced grazing died by the thousands, many large cattle operations went bankrupt, while others suffered severe financial losses.
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- When sons married, fathers gave them gifts of land, livestock, or farming equipment; daughters received household goods, farm animals, and/or cash.
- They loaned livestock and grazing land to one another and worked together to spin yarn, sew quilts, and shuck corn.
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- The use of livestock branding allowed the cattle owned by different ranchers to be identified and sorted.
- Along with ranchers came the need for agricultural crops to feed both humans and livestock.
- In the winter of 1886-1887, as livestock that were already stressed by reduced grazing died by the thousands, many large cattle operations went bankrupt, while others suffered severe financial losses.
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- Sherman therefore applied the principles of scorched earth throughout his
successful Atlanta campaign from May to September of 1864; he ordered his
troops to burn crops, kill livestock, and consume supplies.
- In planning for the march, Sherman used livestock and crop production data from the 1860 census to lead his troops through areas where he believed they would be able to forage most effectively.
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- They planted nutritious English grass such as red clover and timothy-grass, which provided more feed for livestock.
- They loaned livestock and grazing land to one another and worked together to spin yarn, sew quilts, and shuck corn.
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- In many areas, small farmers depended on local planter elites for vital goods and services including (but not limited to) access to cotton gins, access to markets, access to feed and livestock, and even for loans, since the banking system was not well developed in the antebellum South.
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- Farms were in disrepair, and the prewar stock of horses, mules and cattle was much depleted; two-fifths of the South's livestock had been killed.
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- There were disputes over property, livestock damaging Indian crops, hunting, the selling of alcohol to Indians, and dishonest traders.
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- Sherman therefore applied the principles of scorched earth: ordering his troops to burn crops, kill livestock, consume supplies, and destroy civilian infrastructure along their path.
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- In the months that followed, warriors of the prophets' party began to attack the property of their enemies, burning plantations and destroying livestock.