Farming In The West

Question 1

What innovations in the 70s that helped farming on the plains?

Answer 1

• 1873 Barbed wire created
• Deep wells and steel windmills provided water
• Dry farming methods
• New machines e.g. reapers, threashing machines, binders and combine harvesters

Question 2

How did wheat exports change?

Answer 2

• 1865: 1.2 billion litres of wheat

* 1900: 7 billion litres

Question 3

What was the impact of Boom and Bust farming?

Answer 3

• A pattern which many small farmers blamed big companies for as if farm prices fell and so did manufactured goods and railway rates
• the situation would improve e.g. in late 1870s because of cereal and then fell after

Question 4

What were innovations in the early 1800s?

Answer 4

• 1837 Steel Plough

* 1831 Mechanical reaper