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Colonial Farming
Colonial farmers used different tools like hoes to prepare the soil. After planting, colonial farmers used cultivators and shovel plows. To harvest the food, a scythe was used. -
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Farming tools
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18th century farming
Farmers began using oxen and horses to pull a plow. Throughout the 18th century, the agricultural advances would undergo many changes, from simple things like the plow evolving into an interchangeable steel plow. Agriculture became increasingly mechanized and commercialized. -
19th century farming
Gas tractors were invented. The change from horses to tractors began as in the 1950s, the number of tractors exceeded the number of horses on a farm. The Combine Harvesters was invented in the late 1900s. -
20th century
Modern day cultivators dominated the farming scene. New irrigation systems were created. The 20th Century is heavily mechanized showing the agricultural revolution in full swing.
