John Deere and the Steel-Tipped Plow

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Across
  1. 1. The land where farming was difficult.
  2. 4. Thick plant parts in the prairie that iron plows couldn’t cut through.
  3. 7. Where John Deere got the idea from a polished steel blade.
  4. 10. The name of Deere’s first steel plow.
  5. 12. The material that needed to be turned over for planting.
Down
  1. 2. The metal used in early plows that didn’t work well.
  2. 3. The metal John Deere used that worked better than iron.
  3. 5. John Deere’s job before inventing the new plow.
  4. 6. Where Deere began making many plows after his invention succeeded.
  5. 8. What John Deere created to solve a problem.
  6. 9. The main tool used to prepare soil for planting.
  7. 11. The part of the plow that cuts into the soil.