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Hand-held
Scythes New machines such as
reapers, binders and
threshers made farming the
Plains much easier.
1850s
Homesteaders could farm Reaper-Mower
more land and harvest more
crops. The price of this new
machinery was relatively
low and affordable for the
homesteaders.
1860s
1930s Self-Rake
Harvester- Reaper
Thresher
1880s
Harvester-
1920s Binder
Tractor-Binder
Recap
1.Ploughing the Land 1. Deere’s Steel Plough
2.Growing Crops ‘Sodbuster’
3.Lack of Water 2. Turkey Red Wheat
3. Dry Farming & Wind
4.Fire Pumps
5.Crops getting 4. Being careful
Trampled 5. Barbed wire fences
6.Plagues of Insects 6. No solution
7.Size of the 7. Government Acts,
Landholding Railroads
8.Machinery 8. Mechanised tools
9. No Solution
9.Extremes of Weather