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    John Deere's Steel Plow
    John Deere's Steel Plow
    John Deere's Steel Plow
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    John Deere's Steel Plow

    By Edward C. Kendall

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      John Deere's Steel Plow - Edward C. Kendall

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of John Deere's Steel Plow, by Edward C. Kendall

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      Title: John Deere's Steel Plow

      Author: Edward C. Kendall

      Release Date: December 4, 2010 [EBook #34562]

      Language: English

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      John Deere's Steel Plow

      Edward C. Kendall

      DEERE AND ANDRUS   17

      THE FIRST PLOW   19

      STEEL OR IRON   21

      WHY A STEEL PLOW   23

      RECONSTRUCTIONS   24

      IN SUMMARY—   25

      By Edward C. Kendall

      JOHN DEERE'S STEEL PLOW

      John Deere in 1837 invented a plow that could be used successfully in the sticky, root-filled soil of the prairie. It was called a steel plow. Actually, it appears that only the cutting edge, the share, on the first Deere plows was steel. The moldboard was smoothly ground wrought iron.

      Deere's invention succeeded because, as the durable steel share of the plow cut through the heavy earth, the sticky soil could find no place to cling on its polished surfaces.

      Americans moving westward in the beginning of the 19th century soon encountered the prairie lands of what we now call the Middle West. The dark fertile soils promised great rewards to the farmers settling in these regions, but also posed certain problems. First was the breaking of the tough prairie sod. The naturalist John Muir describes the conditions facing prairie farmers when he was a boy in the early 1850's as he tells of the use of the big prairie-breaking plows in the following words:[1]

      They were used only for the first ploughing, in breaking up the wild sod woven into a tough mass, chiefly by the cord-like roots of perennial grasses, reinforced by the tap roots of oak and hickory bushes, called grubs, some of which were more than a century old and four or five inches in diameter.... If in good trim, the plough cut through and turned over these grubs as if the century-old wood were soft like the flesh of carrots and turnips; but if not in good trim the grubs promptly tossed the plough out of the ground.

      The second and greater problem was that the richer lands of the prairie bottoms, after a few years of continuous cultivation, became so sticky that

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