Yesterday, we went to the library to research different farming tools of the 19th century. These products included barbed wire, the steel plow, the reaper, and the thresher. My group was assigned the thresher. We had to create a Google Presentation about the impact of the thresher on farming in the Great Plains. The thresher was a machine that separated grain from the stalk so farm hands did not have to do the work by hand. I think this machine is very important because it increased efficiency and specifically helped the many grain farmers in the West. Farmers already had a difficult job to do, and the thresher would have made their work easier.
Today, we presented our information about the thresher to a panel of buyers who decided which farming tools would be essential to running a farm in the 19th century. The buyers decided not to buy the barbed wire because they did not believe it was a good deal for the acreage they would have to cover, even though it is more resilient than wood. They also decided not to buy the steel plow because it cost too much to make it worth the purchase. The buyers decided to buy the reaper and the thresher because they would increase production and would work together. I agree with their decisions because though both machines were expensive, they would pay back their cost through the increased production.
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