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Steam ploughing

Steam ploughs warm up early.  It takes two hours to get up steam.  

They work in pairs

Dragging the plough across the field on a steel cable.  

Imagine the Victorian farms where one man, two horses and a plough used to turn an acre a day.  

When steam ploughs arrived a team of four could plough 20 acres a day so long as the field was large enough. 

Hedges were ripped out, and farm hands let go, and more men were released to work in the mines and foundries.  

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