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The plow¹ allowed them to farm larger areas of land, helping² to feed the expanding population. 

 

While this new type of agriculture robbed many animals of their habitat, others were to reap the benefits. 

 

Birds such as grackles, cowbirds and red-winged blackbirds exploded in numbers, feeding off the waste remains³ of farming. These pest birds were already common around small native farms in the east. Now large scale farming of crops such as corn, wheat and barley⁴ fuel(s) their numbers to epidemic⁵ proportions. 

 

Despite these pests, North America's agricultural kept on booming, becoming big business. Great sways of a once wild landscape have been turned over to farming. 

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