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length, and is to be found in the Edinburgh Encyclopedia under the 

 head "Agriculture." We will merely observe, that M.-. Jefferson, in 

 this article adopts the old Roman term ear {auris) for mould-board, 

 and preserves it throughout. 



David Peacock of New Jersey, about the year 1807, obtained a 

 patent for a plough, the mould-board and land side of cast-iron, and 

 in separate parts, the share of wrought-iron, steel edged. He cop- 

 ied Newbold's plough in part for the privilege of which he paid him 

 we understand $500. E. A. Stevens of Hoboken, about 1817, 

 studied the mechanism of the plough, devoted his skill and ingenuity 

 to improving it for several years, and succeeded. Many others, 

 amoug us have been engaged in improving the plough for the last 

 30 or 40 years, and some of them have done much in effecting im- 

 provements. Such as Josiah Dutcher of this city, Robert Smith of 

 Pennsylvania, Davis of the District of Columbia, Bergen of Long 

 Island, Moore of Ithaca, and Joel Nourse of Massachusetts. 



Peacock and Stevens, both, we believe, admit they caught the 

 first idea of a cast-iron plough from Newbold's ; and no doubt both 

 made improvements in it. Others who have been engaged in the 

 business, in all probability, caught the idea from the same great 

 source, or from some one that did. Essential improvements, we be- 

 lieve, have been made in our country in the implement within the 

 last 45 years, and by some of the persons named as well as others, 

 either in one or more of its chief parts, or in some of its minor ap- 

 pendages. 



We will take the liberty of naming here without his consent, Mr. 

 Dutcher, who was on this committee with us, but declined acting. 

 He is a very ingenious manufacturer of the cast-iron plough, he 

 has been engaged in the business since 1819, and still continues it. 

 Mr. Dutcher has made numerous improvements, some of them by 

 good judges are considered important. He has also improved much 

 the prairie plough of the west ; owing to some defect in the patent 

 laws, he has not received the reward for his labor and ingenuity, 

 ■which he deserves. No man is more deserving of public patronage 

 in h's line of business. 



We think from the facts and circumstances here noticed, and 

 which, we believe, cannot be questioned, that the late Charles New- 

 bold was the inventor of the first model of the American Cast-Iron 

 Plough now in common use among us, and that he may be so con- 



