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Sowing Success for the Wheat Farmer
Goal: Students will recognize the importance of wheat farming in
Objectives:
1) Students will analyze a historic document.
2) Students will be able to define the purpose of a seeder/cultivator.
3) Students will be able to infer how this product was received.
4) Students will predict the early effects of this machine.
5) Students will analyze the effectiveness of the advertisement and will design an advertisement that will appeal to today’s consumers.
Study the advertisement for the “Badger Broadcast Seeder and Cultivator Combined.”
1) What company manufactures the Badger Seeder/Cultivator?
2) According to the advertisement, what improvements have been made on the seeder/cultivator?
3) What is the guarantee offered by the company?
4) What does this machine do? Use a dictionary to look up the words “sow” and “cultivate” if you need to.
5) How might this machine have been received by wheat farmers? Give a reason for your answer.
6) Predict the early effects that the introduction of this machine had on lagging wheat production in
7) Would this advertisement make you want to buy the Badger Broadcast Seeder and Cultivator? Why or why not? Draw your own ad for the seeder and cultivator using wording, images, and colors you think would convince people of today to buy the product.
Advertisement for "Badger Broadcast Seeder and Cultivator", 1879
