Nineteenth Century Farming

Farming during the early nineteenth century was very unlike today. For settlers who were interested, they had some options if they wanted to buy farm land. The families with the least amount of money could get land as squatters. They drastically changed the land into a valuable working farm and desired to purchase the land later on. Those settlers with limited means could examine the land and purchase a parcel from a government land office for a certain cost per acre.
Most farm families raised various crops, a lot of which can no longer be found today. Usually, the earliest settlers lived on land where soil was orchestrated to a variety of plants. Corn and wheat were the most usual cereal crops, and were among the few excess crops that could