This 1899 illustration shows a steam plow in Dakota. efore tractors were developed in the early twentieth century, steam ploughing was the first method of mechanized ploughing and cultivating, though nearly all ploughing was still done with horses. Steam ploughing involved two steam traction engines, each with a drum carrying cable suspended beneath its boiler.

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