Posted by Bob Bancroft on September 13, 2014 at 17:29:21 from (67.142.162.24):
In Reply to: Farm advancement posted by JWalker on September 13, 2014 at 11:33:15:
Good question- got me to thinking. The first thing that came to mind after reading some of the replies was a book I read about the dust bowl-"The Worst, Hard Times", I think. I was surprised at how quickly mechanization spread, and we could produce more than we needed. Like wise I just finished a book about the Mississippi River. And being a New Yorker, I am somewhat familiar with the Erie Canal. Just like with production, as soon as we could, we were moving vast quantities of material all over. I'm adding my vote to electricity, and all the things it made possible. Almost overnight we went to pumping water, cooling milk, heating, lighting, refrigerating/freezing produce, handling feed/grain/manure, fixing/building things with power tools/welders, fencing, and someone else could keep going.............
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