ELECTRIC PLOUGHING. It is reported that electric ploughing on an extensive scale has been carried out recently in Sweden, Italy, and France. The results are said to have been extremely favourable, justifying the tise of electricity in preference to animal , steam, or oil traction.
WHAT; A SHELL CAN DO. r The testing of a, big gun built for the United States. Navy was recently carried, out with remarkable.. results. Thei gun is : 60ft; in length, weighs about 80 tons, andl fires a. projectile weighing 2,1001b.'' The gun was tried, with an armour-piercing shell against a 13in. Krupjp plate. ; The plate/had behind it the' usual heavy of and' saad, there being &■ mass /of sand hanked up agahist the hacking and extending for; some 80ft. to- 40ft, behind it. " ' The shell made a'clean perforation of '. the armour,; ajnd ,sand backing; v was ; and travelled''; about threerquarters "of ; a mile finally: passing through the * cottage'of a Govferrimsnt employee "stt the' proving ground. The shell doing the enormous amount l of work involved; in the nerforiabacking, and 'sand came to rest 'intact.
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 1107, 21 November 1917, Page 7
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