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To: decimon

Could the fact that agriculture faced shorter growing seasons in the north just possibly have anything to do with the issue at hand?

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5 posted on 02/03/2011 8:42:47 AM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: GladesGuru
Could the fact that agriculture faced shorter growing seasons in the north just possibly have anything to do with the issue at hand?

Yes. But I don't see what that has to do with this article.

6 posted on 02/03/2011 9:01:05 AM PST by decimon
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Good point, but the northward move would have also found richer and more moist soils (and the shorter growing season is partly compensated for by longer hours of daylight).


7 posted on 02/03/2011 9:03:27 AM PST by pierrem15 (Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
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