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| When by the 1890s railroads had expanded to | | | | There are no published figures on the number of |
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| barbed wire allowed cattle to be confined to | | | | production, as this field officially is called. But |
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| continued for more than 50 years prior to the | | | | 2003, you shouldn’t expect to earn much |
| development of the modern cattle truck as | | | | more than $20,000 per annum. |
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