Gilbert, Arizona

The early farmers in the area first had to clear their lands of the natural desert, level the land, find a water source, plant, and pray.They were rugged people who settled here, and the equip ment they used seems foreign in our day.The Gilbert Historical Museum has many pictures in its collection of these people working their land, mainly with horses or mules as a power source. Alfalfa hay was the major crop of our early pioneers, and the picture at right shows a hay rake that was common more than a hundred years ago.

k Hay rake

k Bill Morrison and team

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