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difficulties at this stage of progress are told as 

 follows, by one who wrote largely from per- 

 sonal recollection : 



" He immediately began to nicnnufacture his 

 plows, and introduce them to the farmers in 

 his neighborhood. The difficulties which he 

 now encountered would have daunted any man 

 without extraordinary perseverance and a firm 

 belief in the inestimable benefit to agriculture 

 sure to result from his invention. He was 

 obliged to manufacture all the patterns, and to 

 have the plow cast under the disadvantages 

 usual with new machinery. The nearest fur- 

 nace was thirty miles from his home, and, baf- 

 fled by obstacles which unskillful and disoblig- 

 ing workmen threw in his way, he visited it, 

 day after day, directing the making of his 

 patterns, standing by the furnaces while the 

 metal was melting, and often with his own 

 hands aiding in the casting. 



" When, at length, samples of his plow were 



