FARMING; BEFORE AND AFTER THE REVOLUTION

By:Tristan R.Abie K.Julian M.

HOW IT USED TO BE

Farming was a simple, but tough job. It all hand to be done by hand, or by ‘contraptions’. The Mule Wagon was a contraption. Hand made,

rickety, and slightly unreliable. It was able to carry large amounts of crops, clothes, etc. at the cost of the mules’ energy.

Fg. 1: Mule drawn wagon being used to farm wheat in 1920

REAPING MACHINE

The Reaping Machine is a contraption. It is powered by gas or electricity, but by horses and wheels.

The horses pull a carriage, and attached to the carriage was a blade. The blade would cut grasses (such as wheat) with little trouble. People, or a shelf, would carry a basket to collect the freshly cut grasses.

POLITICALLY AND ECONOMICALLYFarming was a good job to have, or be born into. You could make decent money, but that just became excess since you grew enough to sell and keep some for your family. If you had a very large farm, and enough income to pay for it, you could hire workers. Or just buy slaves, up to you.

-Although slightly cartoonish, it showsslaves working insomeone's farm.

SOCIALLY

People did not care about religion as much when the revolution was happening. Men of the farm would go to work in factories to make more money, leaving their farms abandoned or with their families.

==They cared about religion, but not as much as they normally did.==

-Through farming; walking, working, lifting, people would stay in shape. Since the industrial revolution, vehicles have allowed people to slow down their lives and work less.

COTTON!!1ONE!==King Cotton!!==

Cotton was a big thing during the Industrial Revolution. With the invention of the cotton gin, by Eli Whitney. The cotton gin was a messy contraption that came out in the1860’s. Cotton would be fed into one end, and then would be pushed through the other end clean, and without seeds.

COTTON GIN

CULTIVATION

As more land has become available, there are less and less farmers there were to farm it.With recent government interference, farming has been an interesting profession. Taxes for grazing, and cost of seeds have played a large part in the ‘abandonment’ of farming.

SAMUEL SLATER

Samuel Slater was the founder

of American Industry.He invented cotton mills in New England, he also invented

the spinning wheel in the 1790’s

FARMING NOW

Farming has changed a lot since the revolution. GMO’s have been put in place and food takes such less work that before, ‘Genetically modified food’ is a lot cheaper than organic food.

FARMING NOW

Industry. It has changes farming drastically. These (pivot irrigation) allow for easy irrigation for large areas of crops. Although slightly expensive, it allows much, much less work to be done.

MACHINES

Machines, are powered by gas or electricity. Such as tractors, or lawnmowers. These machines allow for less work to be done, and work to get done at a faster pace that before.

This picture is an exaggeration. There is not enough space on the plains for this many harvesters. But, what this picture does show is the potential for future wheat plains.

Industrial Revolution

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