. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. conceived ilie design of the plow and employed Deere, tlie blacksmith newly arri\ed from Vermont, to build it. This idea may have originated with and was certainly promoted by the late Fred A. Wirt, as adveriisins; manastcr of the J. I. Case Company. It is dillicuh, at this distance, to determine the parts played at the beginning by Deere and Andrus. The earliest existing partnership agreement involv- ing Andrus and Deere is dated March 20, ; The existing copy is unsigned, but its conditions are the same as those in the agreements
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. conceived ilie design of the plow and employed Deere, tlie blacksmith newly arri\ed from Vermont, to build it. This idea may have originated with and was certainly promoted by the late Fred A. Wirt, as adveriisins; manastcr of the J. I. Case Company. It is dillicuh, at this distance, to determine the parts played at the beginning by Deere and Andrus. The earliest existing partnership agreement involv- ing Andrus and Deere is dated March 20, ; The existing copy is unsigned, but its conditions are the same as those in the agreements executed during the next few years. It began by stating that Deere and Andrus had agreed "to become copartners together which brought in a third partner, Horace Paine, described the business as "the art and trade of Black- smithing Plough Making Iron Castings and all things thereto belonging . ." and stated that the co- partnership should be conducted "under the name and firm of L. Andrus and ; The third agree- ment, dated October 20, 1846, in which another man appeared in place of Paine, gave the name of the firm as Andrus, Deere, and ; This carried an addendum dated June 22, 1847, in thich Andrus and Deere bought out Lathrop's interest in the business and agreed to continue under the name of Andrus and Deere. This is the only mention of the firm of Andrus and Deere. It could only have lasted a few months because it was in 1847 that Deere moved Moline and established his plow factory Figure 2.âLarge Plow, MiD-igra Centirv. \\'heels undernealii tlic beam regulate the depth of plowing; large wheel runs in the furrow, small wheel on the land. The colter is braced at ihe bottom as well as at the top. The share cuts a broad, shallow strip of sod which the long, gently cun'ing moldboard turns over unbroken. in the art and trade of Blacksmithing, ploughmaking and all things thereto belonging at the said Grand Detour,
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