USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -By the 1860s, Plains farmers were using steel plows, threshing machines, seed drills, and reapers. These new machines made dry farming possible. Still, soil on the Plains could blow away during a dry season.

Detailed explanation-2: -Farmers in an industrial age New machinery increased the speed of planting and harvesting crops. Invented in the late nineteenth century, the twine-binder, “combine” (combined reaper-thresher), and gasoline tractor increased harvest yields and decreased the amount of labor needed to produce them.

Detailed explanation-3: -Technology helped ease some of the strain and, in some cases, ensured success. Canals, stagecoaches, and railroads made it possible for thousands of people to settle the West.

Detailed explanation-4: -There were several new farming technologies and techniques such as the mechanized reaper, barbed wire, dry farming, steel plow, harrow, steel windmill, hybridization, and grain drill. The mechanized reaper made it easier to have larger farms without the need of extra hands.