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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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| A type of farming as a way of life and survival. |
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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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| 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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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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| 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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