GK
INVENTIONS
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increased farming production
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decreased farming production
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made farming more difficult
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planted seeds automatically for farmers
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cyrus Hall McCormick invented the mechanical reaper, which combined all the steps that earlier harvesting machines had performed separately. His time-saving invention allowed farmers to more than double their crop size and spurred innovations in farm machinery.
Detailed explanation-2: -The reaper broke the harvest-labor bottleneck by allowing the farmer “to reap as much as he could sow.” This big step toward automation allowed farms to become larger and more productive.
Detailed explanation-3: -In agriculture, a reaper is a farm machine used in crop cutting. In olden days farmers and field workers used to harvest crops with the help of their hands using a device such as sickle. But the use of reaper has modernized agriculture and saved labor cost. It has also made the process faster.
Detailed explanation-4: -The impact of McCormick’s reaper was profound. Crops could be cut far faster than before, and with fewer farm hands to pay. By some estimates, about 75% of the U.S. labor force was connected to agriculture in 1820; by 1968, that number had dropped to just 5%.