CULTIVATION Please choose one ADMINISTRATION AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS COMMUNICATIONS CONFLICT CULTIVATION ENCLOSURES ENERGY EXTRACTION FLOODING GRAZINGS HOUSING KNOWLEDGE LEISURE MANUFACTURE PERCEPTION SETTLEMENTS TRADES Spade cultivation Gardens Rigs and fields Forestry and other first ploughing Ploughing with a steam plough, Airth, Stirlingshire The steam engine offered more power than horses and so the plough could cultivate three furrows at once. The 'Enterprise' was a reversible steam plough with three furrows at each end. It was designed by Lord Dunmore in c. 1870. It is being hauled via a chain by a Thomson road steamer. The road steamer was not powerful enough and the rubber-tyred wheels did not give enough traction. The experiment proved a failure. Resource pack   1     2     3     4