68 JETHRO WOOD; 



could hardly pay a nobler tribute to the 

 memory of Jethro Wood than this. It is 

 doubly significant, from the fact that Knight's 

 publishers, Houghton, Osgood & Co., are also 

 the publishers of the Atlantic Monthly, in 

 the May number of which magazine a habitue 

 of the National Capital tried to belittle the 

 invention of Jethro Wood, and malign as in- 

 iquitous the attempt of his daughters, cham- 

 pioned by John Quincy Adams, to secure for 

 that invention proper recognition. It would 

 be quite superfluous to follow this maligner in 

 the details of this, and a subsequent attack in 

 an agricultural journal. He disclaims any 

 design to defame the claimants, but insists 

 that other and earlier inventors deserve the 

 credit for the modern plow. The opinion of 

 Knight's Dictionary upon the Wood patent 

 has just been given, and the following extract 

 from the same great work sets forth in their 

 proper relations to the modern plow the in- 



