The Problems and Solutions of Living and Farming on the Plains
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- The Problems and Solutions of Living and Farming on the Plains
- Water Shortages
- Water was scarce on the Great plains
- Invention of windmill - 1874
- It was difficult for people to keep themselves and their clothes clean
- Used to pump water from underground
- Invention of windmill - 1874
- It was difficult for people to keep themselves and their clothes clean
- Water was scarce on the Great plains
- Weather Extremes
- It was hot in the summer and cold in winter. There was low rainfall and fierce winds
- No solutions
- It was hot in the summer and cold in winter. There was low rainfall and fierce winds
- Fuel
- There was no wood to burn for heating and cooking
- Homesteaders used Buffalo dung for fuel
- There was no wood to burn for heating and cooking
- Dirt and Disease
- Sod houses were difficult to keep clean
- They lived with pests such as bed bugs, fleas, mice and snakes
- Difficult for people to keep clean especially with water shortages
- Easy for dirt and disease to develop
- They lived with pests such as bed bugs, fleas, mice and snakes
- Sod houses were difficult to keep clean
- Easy for dirt and disease to develop
- Building Materials
- Difficult to stop water leeking in when it rained
- Blocks of earth (sods) were used to build houses
- Natural Hazards
- Dry grass meant it was easy for prairie fires to start
- Destroyed crops if they got too big
- Hundred-acre cornfields vanished in a few hours
- Destroyed crops if they got too big
- Dry grass meant it was easy for prairie fires to start
- Ploughing
- Grasses had dense tangled roots
- Cast iron ploughs needed constant repairs
- Ploughing land when there had been heavy rain or snow
- Grasses had dense tangled roots
- Cast iron ploughs needed constant repairs
- Ploughing land when there had been heavy rain or snow
- Using a 'sod - buster' - a strong plough
- Better farming machinery was developed
- Ploughing land when there had been heavy rain or snow
- Cast iron ploughs needed constant repairs
- Grasses had dense tangled roots
- Using a 'sod - buster' - a strong plough
- Better farming machinery was developed
- Ploughing land when there had been heavy rain or snow
- Cast iron ploughs needed constant repairs
- The Plains had never been planned before
- Grasses had dense tangled roots
- Protecting Crops
- There was no wood for fencing
- The invention of barbed wire - 1874
- There was nothing to protect crops from buffalo or straying cattle
- The invention of barbed wire - 1874
- It was difficult to mark land boundaries which can lead to disputes
- There was no wood for fencing
- Growing Crops
- The crops that they grew were not suited to the weather conditions on the Great Plains
- They grew wheat which was more suitable than corn
- They kept animals rather than just growing crops
- Russian immigrants introduced wheat that grew successfully on the Plains because the conditions were similar to those in Russia
- The crops that they grew were not suited to the weather conditions on the Great Plains
- Water Shortages
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