A bonanza farm, a phrase used in US in the 1870s, referred to very large farms harvested mostly wheat, being seeded here.
A bonanza farm was the phrase used in the 1870s in the United States to refer to very large farms - those that grew and harvested mostly wheat. And this was all during the Industrial Revolution. These farms were most usually close to the route of the Northern Pacific Railroad. This illustration, which dates to 1887, shows men seeding a bonanza farm in the Dakotas. Seeding is the hardest part of farming there. The men walk between 18 and 20 miles a day besides lifting sacks, filling seeders, and managing horses. It is frequently either muddy or dusty in the spring.
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