The most common farm tools used in the 19th century were made from wood and metal strips. These tools were used by hand labor or pulled by a strong workhorse (Fite 1). Most of the farmers went to a near town and purchased a few slaves for a good price. Slaves were the main farm workers in the north until the end of the Civil War. They would do the farmers hard work for little, or no pay. Due to the end of slavery the blacks were able to become shareowners on several farms. They were granted their freedom, as well the right to own and harvest their own land (Duane 156).

One hot invention in the 1800's was the harvesting machine and thresher. The harvesting machine was created by an American inventor searching for an easier way to cut down the grain stalks. This young inventor's name was C

yrus McCormick, and this machine was built in 1824. The thresher was a machine, capable of separating the grain from the head. This was created by two brothers in 1836, but wasn't used much until the

During this present time there has been improvements made on the first design of almost every farm machinery. An example of that would be the diesel tractor and the multi row machinery. The fertilization method is still being used, while the pesticide process has been created in the late 1900's. By the use of technology inventors are always coming up with equipment that is able to speed up the farming process. Another invention that was invented in the late 1900's was irrigation. This process allowed a farmer to receive water on a field when needed, rather than only when it rained.

In the beginning of the 1900's several new and more advanced forms of equipment began to come out. Such machines was the cotton gin, steel and iron plows, reapers, threshing machines, grain drills, corn and cotton planters, and iron harrows and

While the technology continues to increase so will the crop sizes produced. I believe that the United States will soon begin to import good, and foods from other countries. This would stop the need for farmers in the United States. I also believe that a scientists will eventually create a robot that perform this occupation for us. Then there will be no need for humanly ran farms, so these farms will eventually die out.

Between 1860 and 1916, the number of farms in the united states more than tripled, and the farm acres more than doubled (Fite 3).

A man named John Deere invented the first steel plow. He was a blacksmith in the state of Illinois. This was done in the 1830's. This was made because the earlier versions of the plow were made of cast iron and wood. It also had a hard time trying to turn up the hard soil in the west. When they plowed, the soil would stick to the wooden blade, which would clog the furrows. But the soil wouldn't stick to a steel plated blade (Farm 89). This also helped prevent a lot of t

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