03/16/09, 07:46 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Verndale MN
Posts: 1,130
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They love them as much as Christmas trees 
I recently came across a history tidbit involving goats & apple trees in America. The early settlers, starting with the Pilgrims, had goats for brush-clearing as much as milk and meat. But once a settlement had enough land cleared for stable crops, pioneers would plant apple orchards, since everyone then drank hard cider with a meal.
Those pioneers quickly found that goats & apple trees couldn't be kept together, so the goats would be sold West. The historian was able to track the Westward Expansion year by year, mile by mile, through tax rolls with and without goats.
just had to throw that in
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