"Anybody can plough," was tin rather" unusual admission of a young farmer before the Military Sorrico Board in Palmcrston North. Tho Board looked incredulous, not, as it explained collectively, that it did not believe the statement, but it had been told t>o often by farmers seeking exemption that ploughing was something in die. nature, of a fine art requiring long experience, and impossible* of'accomplis.':mc.nt by a norice. "I quito agree with you," said Mr Perry, himself an expert in agricultural farming, "but vou arc tho first to admit it before this Board." Tho younc man who made the admission qualified it by saying that anybody could plough, but the trouble; was that they would not learn.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15918, 4 June 1917, Page 9
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