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TRUMPETER SWANS (continued): • When a pen lays her eggs, she does so in an DEERE. JOHN DEERE. (continued): unusual way. She will lay one egg every other • day It was while living in Illinois that John no-to until she has a total nest, usually three ticedeggs. the problems farmers faced when eight She does that not start incubation until attempting to till soil. Because the area had her “clutch” (group or hatch of eggs) is comformerly been woodland, the soil was rich plete so that all of her cygnets hatch within a which clumped and clung to 24with hourhummus, period. Nests are often built on top of the blades of the plows farmers were accusbeaver lodges or muskrat houses using stems, tomed to using. While repairing a broken cirleaves, cattails andstumbled more. Aupon pen only hatches cular saw, Deere an idea. He one clutch of eggs per year and the incubation employed his smith skills to fashion the steel period about days.of a plow. He affixed blade isinto the 34 shape two wooden spokes, then hitched the Grande device • Saskatoon Island Provincial Park near to a horse. It plowed the heavy Illinois soil Prairie, Alberta holds an annual Swan Festilike a charm. fact, a farmer who happened val every April,Inproviding a fun time to learn to be observing the test run immediately put about and observe trumpeter swans. in an order for his own John Deere plow. • Another place to see the big birds is at Har• In short order, Deere gave up his blacksmith riman State Park in Island Park, Idaho, near shop and focused on making plows. The Yellowstone National Park. population company grew steadily andThe added many em-of resident trumpeter swans does not migrate but ployees. In the late 1840s, John relocated the stays inoperation the tri-state region of Idaho,Ashamed Montana entire to Moline, Illinois. and Wyoming. of his own lack of education, John sent his children to the state’s finest schools. One of • These interesting swans actually go through his proudest days occurred when son Charles a flightless period every year when they molt earned of an MBA from Bell’s (or lose)the all equivalent of their feathers. Typically occurCommercial College in Chicago. ring in July and August, they are not able to • fly With Charles managing the company, for his 1-2son months. John found time to pursue philanthropic in• Not surprising, trumpeter soterests. He co-founded both swans the Firstwere Nationnamed of their trumpet-like call. al Bankbecause and the First Congregational Church. Deep and loud they can be heard from quite He was elected the mayor of Moline in 1873, a where distance. most similar bird to the trumoneThe of his first actions – the replacepeter is the tundra swan. They are most easily ment of the city’s open drains with a sewer distinguished of their sounds. pipe system –because saved countless lives by Tundra reducing thesound spreadmore of disease. swans like geese, with a quaverhigh-pitched call. • ing The original John Deere logo, registered in 1876, depicted a deer that was native Afri• It is easy to confuse geese, ducks andtoswans. ca. Thirty-six years later, in 1912, it was reGenerally, swans are the largest with the lonplaced with Geese the image a Northnecks American gest necks. haveof longer than white-tailed deer. In the decades folducks; ducks are almost always thethat smallest lowed, the now-familiar “outline” logo took of the three types of waterfowl. over as the symbol of the John Deere brand.
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