Answer:
(i)
For the poorer farmers, machinery brought misery. Many of them deserted their
farms and looked for jobs elsewhere.
(ii) But jobs were difficult to be found. Mechanisation had reduced the
need for labour.
(iii) The boom of the late 19th century seemed to have
come to an end by the mid-1920s.
(iv) After that, most farmers faced trouble. Production
had expanded so rapidly during the war and post-war years that there was a
large surplus.
(v) Unsold stocks piled up, structures overflowed with grain
and vast amounts of corn and wheat were turned into animal feed.
(vi) Wheat prices fell and export workers collapsed. This
created the grounds for the great Agrarian Depression of the 1930s that ruined wheat
farmers everywhere.
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