What were the advantages of the use of mechanical harvesting machines in the USA?
1. Cyrus McCormick’s reaper could work as 16 men with sackers.
2. The new harvesting machines were able to harvesting 500 acres of wheat in two weeks.
3. The new machines reduced their dependence on the labour.
4. The new harvesting machines made the farmers to sow and harvest a big traits of land. This led to increase in production.