Gentlemen, Take Your Seats

August 2006
Ralph Hughes 
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In 1875, the John Deere Plow Works in Moline, Ill., began selling a riding 1-bottom plow named after the inventor, Gilpin Moore. Within a decade, nearly 150,000 Gilpin plows were sold annually. The riding 2-bottom gangplow was added to the Deere line in the early 1880s. Moore also helped design early John Deere gangplows.
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Seats on implements helped boost farm productivity

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The millions of immigrants who came to America during the 19th century brought with them a variety of skills, experience and knowledge. There were carpenters, cabinet-makers, shopkeepers, coopers, gunsmiths, miners and factory workers. Thousands of the immigrants also had been farmers or field hands in their homelands. Shortly after arriving in America, those who could, bought land to farm; some traveled farther west to establish homesteads and others sought jobs on established farms. Immigrants from eastern Europe found the farming practices and implements used in America to be much the same as those in their native countries, and that horses and mules furnished the muscle to pull the implements the farmers trudged behind.

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