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Great Fence Crisis. “Wherever a farm may be located, or whatever may be its production, fence, Fence, Fence is the first, the intermediate, and the last.

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1 Great Fence Crisis

2 “Wherever a farm may be located, or whatever may be its production, fence, Fence, Fence is the first, the intermediate, and the last consideration in the whole routine of the operations of the farm.” — S. Edwards Todd, The Young Farmer’s Manual, 1860

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5 “When one has roamed, as I have, over those boundless and woodless prairies, extending thousands of miles away to the west, and south of us, the question of almost painful interest arises, how are these vast plains to be peopled? How are they to be tamed, subdued, and brought into proper use and cultivation? How are they to be fenced? — Horace Capron, U.S. Agriculture Commissioner, 1867- 1871

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