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18 PERTH COUNTY SPECIAL EDITION
ity on pioneer farms rose dramatically!
Those early innovations from John
Deere were portents of monumental
significance. By 1857, Deere was
turning out better than 13,000 plows a
year. Today, the corporation that
bears his name is the largest farm -
equipment manufacturer on the globe.
But enterprising Ontario develop-
ments also gave the early sod -busters
a helping hand. With plowing mat-
ches being popular provincial events
as early as 1824, rapid changes in the
design of moldboards, shares, coulters,
handles (stilts), and plow beams
produced an amazing variety of plows
according to location and soil types.
By 1854, Ontario counties and
township societies were holding more
than 30 annual plowing matches. And
from Confederation in 1867 onward,
"large and substantial grants were
given for plowing matches by both the
Federal and Ontario goverments"
(Agricultural Gazette, 1915).
There was great prejudice
against cast-iron plows —
some even affirming that
cast-iron poisoned the
ground .. .
Eight years after Canada's first
birthday, blacksmith Thomas Yeandle
put the bustling town of Stratford on
the map with his outstanding Beaver
Plow. Taking first prize at the Ottawa
Provincial Exposition in the follow-
ing year, Yeandle's plow design won
acclaim for both the man and his
hometown.
But from 1885 to 1910, plowing
matches began to dwindle in the
province. Having generally been held
in conjunction with a county fair or
agricultural exhibition, the availability
of suitable land close to a municipal
fairground became a problem. It soon
became apparent that plowing skills
were diminishing among farmers.
It was not until 1911 that a group
of farmers concerned with good tillage
and soil husbandry met with officials
of the new Extension Service of the
Department of Agriculture to form the
Ontario Plowmen's Association.
Breaking Ground: The Story of
The Ontario Plowmen's Association,
by Amber Underwood, states: "For its
first 40 years the OPA concentrated on