Which of the following did NOT make Great Plains agriculture more profitable in the late nineteenth century?
A) large-scale irrigation
B) the invention of barbed wire
C) dry farming
D) the chilled iron plow
E) European wheat varieties
Answer: A) large-scale irrigation
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