But this device was once one of the most important tools in the world, used to cut grass for hay and harvest crops from fields.

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To make it, fresh milk from grass or hay-fed cows within a 20km radius is poured raw into a copper pot and heated until it begins to curdle.

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With grass scarce, hay prices became too costly, forcing some ranchers to feed their cattle a mixture of prickly pear cactus and molasses.

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Ms. VASHTI BUNYAN: (Singing) Just another diamond day, just a blade of grass, just another bale of hay where the horses pass.

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