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| | Look Back - Speed the Plow - FORTUNE SMALL BUSINESS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | His moniker is plastered on the green-and-yellow lawnmowers that many of you are getting reacquainted with now that the grass is growing again, and his name also adorns all those tractors, plows, and planters that farmers are using to work their fields. |
 | | Their cast-iron plow blades had worked well in the sandy fields of Vermont, but the dark, rich Midwestern earth clung to the iron blades, requiring farmers to stop every few steps to scrape off the soil with a paddle. |
 | | He also proved to be a savvy businessman: Instead of making plows to order, as was customary at the time, he made them in advance and then rode around the countryside peddling them. |
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