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Your Quotes for 7 February 2006 - Farming

John Deere was born at Rutland, Vermont on this day in 1804. In 1821 he became an apprentice blacksmith and opened his own shop four years later. In 1836, married with four children, his business was failing so the family moved west to Grand Detour, Illinois where he soon developed a plow that was dramatically more productive than others. A hardened steel plowshare cut the turf better, and a highly polished wrought-iron moldboard turned the soil aside without clogging. Ten years later, he sold his interest to his partner and started Deere and Company at Moline, making not only plows but other bright green farming equipment.

No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
     - Booker Taliaferro Washington, 1856 - 1915

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.
     - Charles Dudley Warner, 1829 - 1900

A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting.
     - Gladys Taber, 1899 - 1980

On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.
     - Willa Silbert Cather, 1873 - 1947

The study of tools as well as of books should have a place in the public schools. Tools, machinery, and the implements of the farm should be made familiar to every boy, and suitable industrial education should be furnished for every girl.
     - Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1822 - 1893

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
     - Jim Hightower

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