does "cured"here=take care of? or =deal with?
A month after the flood, in October, he returned with Jody in the wag-on beside him to Mullet Prairie to gather the cut and cured hay. Rip and Julia trotted along behind the wagon. Penny allowed Flag, too, to follow for he had begun to make a great commotion whenever he was shut up and left behind in the shed. He ran, sometimes ahead of old C.sar, sometimes, when the road was wide enough, beside him. Now and then

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It roughly means the definitions 4-5, under v.tr (transitive verb):

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cure

So, the hay is preserved (cured) through the process of drying.  You can also find the phrase in the Wikipedia article on hay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay#Making_and_transporting_hay

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