Ranchers and Farmers 18-2

What wasn't a common farming challenge

• Brush fires

• Disease

• Little rainfall

• Tornados

What state did Texans drive their cattle to be loaded into trains?

• Mississippi

• Pennsylvania

• Missouri

• Michigan

What city and state was an important station in the 1860s

• Cheyenne, WY

• Cheyenne, WA

• Cheyenne, WV

• Cheyenne, WI

What was an effect of the rise of cattle in the market?

• Prices grew

• Killed the cattle

• Prices fell

• Stopped selling them

What was dry farming?

• Overwatering crops

• Planted the seeds deep in the ground

• Planted seeds close to the surface

• Used hydrophonics

Homesteaders who claimed the land before it was authorized to be claimed

• boomers

• sooners

• vigilanties

• doomers

Wired fences used to protect farmers land

• Wooden fence

• Electric fence

• Barbed wire

• Barbed wood

Much of ______ was open range

• Wyoming

• Maine

• Alabama

• Texas

Longhorn cattle formerly worth $3 quickly rose to _____

• $30

• $40

• $50

• $60

One of the greatest dangers were...

• Disease

• Tornados

• Stampedes

• Dust storms