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How Do We Know?

Plow

Date:
1790 - 1820
Item Type:
object
Plow
Concord Museum; gift of Mrs. Leslie O. Anderson

About

Before planting, farmers used wooden moldboard plows to turn the soil in their fields and create furrows for planting. Oxen (steer trained to work) were the preferred draught animal for plowing in New England well into the 19th century.