ECONOMICS
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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Question
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Planted crops that could grow with the amount of rain that fell.
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Watering their crops by hand.
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Planting crops that grow with little sunlight.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The soil in the Panhandle and some areas of West Texas was quite rich but was often very hard on the surface. John Deere’s deep steel plow-widely used by 1845-helped West Texas farmers break through the hard soil. This type of plow left a layer of loose soil on top to allow crops to better absorb moisture from the air.
Detailed explanation-2: -They still raised cotton and corn, as well as a few cattle, sheep, hogs, and chickens. Corn provided food for people and livestock.
Detailed explanation-3: -Most of the farmers would grow tobacco, wheat, barley, oats, rice, corn, vegetables, and more. The farmers also had many different kinds of livestock, such as chicken, cows, pigs, ducks, geese, and more.
Detailed explanation-4: -Many of the practices typically associated with sustainable agriculture can also help increase the resilience of the agricultural system to impact of climate change, such as: diversifying crop rotations. integrating livestock with crop production systems. improving soil quality.
Detailed explanation-5: -The value of Texas farms increased because they grew in size, but the value of land per acre fell in the 1890s. These problems produced greater debts, more mortgaged farms, and a rise in the percentage of tenants from 37.6 to 49.7 percent of all farmers during the last two decades of the nineteenth century.