John Deere designed the first cast steel plow that
greatly helped the Great Plains farmers. The large plows made for
cutting the tough prairie ground were called "grasshopper plows."
The
plow was made of wrought iron and had a steel share that could cut
through sticky soil without clogging. By 1855, John Deere's factory was
selling over 10,000 steel plows a year.
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