John Deere 1
As settlers in the United States moved westward, plowing of the black prairie soils, high in organic matter, posed a special problem to the farmers who had cast-iron and iron-patched plows. Wooden plows were no match for the sticky, thick clay soils encountered by settlers of the Central Plains of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana. Even the iron plows invented by Charles Newbold of New Jersey in 1703 and by Jethro Wood of Massachusetts in 1819 caused the soil to bunch up in large sections rather than scour into neat furrows (235 WOI). The ingenuity of John Deere resulted in a new kind of plow that was made entirely of steel except for the braces, beam, and handles. A steel plow that could cut through th
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