Farming Homestead

5. The mechanism which was able to pump water from underground.
7. The number of acres of land that homesteaders had to promise to plant trees
8. The destructive insect which destroyed crops across Kansas and Nebraska.
10. The material which was used to strengthen windmills used by settlers in the American West
12. This material was needed by settlers to build homes, equipment and fences.
14. The type of plough invented in 1875 which easily cut through tough ground and strong roots.

1. There was a lack of this on the Great Plains which made farming and growing crops very difficult.
2. The dried buffalo dung which was used as fuel once it had been dried.
3. 50,000 sulky ploughs were sold in how many years after its first production?
4. The surname of the inventor of barbed wire
6. The surname of the inventor of the Sulky Plough
7. This natural hazard would be caused by lightening striking dry land.
9. The surname of the inventor of the self governing windmill
11. The original location of the 'Red Wheat' which was introduced to the American West in 1873.
13. The type of wire invented in 1874