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History of Agriculture
Advances, Technology, Methods, and Legislation related to agriculture in the USA
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Agriculture
Intermediate
10/21/2015

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What is this a picture of and what did it do?

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Cotton gin. It removed the seeds from the picked cotton.
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Who invented the cotton gin?
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Eli Whitney
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A type of farming as a way of life and survival.
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Subsistence Farming
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Time in US history when farm tasks began to be done by machinery, factories, and mass production.
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Industrial Revolution
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Organization with offices at land grant universities that provide federal funding to support useful, practical research-based information to agricultural producers, youth, small businesses and the public in rural communities.
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Cooperative Extension Service
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Act that established land-grant colleges and universities to focus on military tactics, engineering and agriculture.
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Morrill Act of 1862
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What is this machine and how did it improve farming efficiency?

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Thresher

 

It greatly increased the efficiency and reduce the manual labor required to harvest grain by separating the straw and chaff from the grain.

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What machine is this farmer using and what did it do?

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Mechanical Reaper

 

Used for harvesting grain

 

 

image credit: "McCormick Twine Binder 1884" by Probably McCormick Harvester Company advertisement - Front page of The Abilene reflector, Kansas, May 29, 1884 – scanned by US Library of Congress http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84029385/1884-05-29/ed-1/. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McCormick_Twine_Binder_1884.jpg#/media/File:McCormick_Twine_Binder_1884.jpg

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Legislation passed that gave money to 1862 land-grant universities to create agricultural experiment stations.
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Hatch Act of 1887
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Student organization created in 1928 to encourage rural farm boys to stay in the business of farming that has now turned into one of the largest co-ed Career and Technical Education Organizations.
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