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deavoring to introduce it in the west, and one year's sickness when 

 I returned. The west will be immensely benefited by this improve- 

 ment — undoubtedly to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars, 

 while I have been the loser in the operation of at least five thousand 

 dollars, besides my health injured for life. When I take a retros- 

 pective view of what I have done for the American public in the im- 

 provement of the plow for Ihe last thirty years, and see how the public 

 at large have dealt with me, and the government in particular, 

 whose province it was to protect me, instead of protection I have re- 

 ceived the contrary; I have been denied my just rights, they have 

 been legislated away from me, and given to others. I can reason- 

 ably reckon up more than ten thousand dollars, very safely that I 

 have expended for it, in time and money, to make and introduce the 

 common and prairie plow, I have never received one thousand dol- 

 lars in return. 



JOSIAH DUTCHER. 



