The advantages of the use of mechanical harvesting machines in
the USA were:
→ The price of wheat was high and demand limitless. These new
machines allowed farmers to quickly clear tracts, break up the
soil, remove the grass and prepare the ground for cultivation.
→ The work could be done within a shorter time period and with a lesser number of labourers.
→ With power-driven machinery, four men could plough seed
and harvest 2,000 to 4,000 acres of wheat in a season.
However there were some disadvantages for the poorer farmers
too.
→ They were thrown out of their jobs and they lost their means
of livelihood.
→ Many of them bought this machine too but it adversly affect
them as the machines were expensive and once the demand
crossed its limit there was enough surplus grain in the market.
Thus, farmers needed to pay back the loan they had taken from banks to buy
these machines, and the farmers had no money.
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