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How did the steel plow and the wood plow affect the civil war?

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What is the difference from the steel plow and iron plow?
The metal type and quality.
What is a steel plow?
The steel plow is a invention by John Deere in 1837. A steel plow came right after the iron plow and helped farmers because they didn't have to stop and clean their plows from dirt. This helped the...
What advantage did steel plows offer over wooden plows?
steel plow never broke
What does the steel plow do?
The steel plow breaks up tough soil without the soil getting stuck to it. John Deere invented the steel plow because farmers in the Midwest could not use the cast-iron plow because they kept...
What did the steel plow replace?
Overall the steel plow replaced the wooden plow, steel being alot stronger material than wood but it was unable to be shaped into a plow bottom until the 1800s.