question_answer 6)

Draw a timeline from 1650 to 1930 showing the significant agricultural changes which you have read about in this chapter.

Answer:

                                               Timeline of Agricultural Changes

Year	Changes in England	Chagnes in America
1650	Enclosures promoting sheep rearing started
1660	Farmers begin growing turnip and clover to increase soil fertility
1800	Farm labourers started to be taken on part-time wages
1810	Introduction of threshing machines
1820	Grain prices start falling after rising for 25 years	Agriculture starts in Mississipi valley
1830	Captain Swing Movement	Cyrus McCormick invents mechanical reaper
1850	Six million acres enclosed for grain production
1860		Agriculture starts in Great Plains
1890
1900		Use of combined harvester started
1910		John Deere invents mechanical plough
1920		74 million acres under wheat cultivation
1930		Persistent drought and agrarian depression