GOOD DAY’S WORK
Mr M. St. J. McKay, a Tai Tapu contractor, lays no claim to a record but he believes that a 10ft cui self-propelled header of his did a very good day’s work last harvest when it turned out 908 sacks or the equivalent of 2724 bushels in a 13-hour day. Mr McKay’s previous biggest day was 712 sacks.
The day’s work was done in a 36-acre paddock of Aotea on the property of Mr J. Griffiths at Tai Tapu. The crop was a very good one, yielding 100 bushels to the acre and this was one of the factors in the good day’s output. Other factors, according to Mr McKay, were that the day was a good one for heading, the day’s work was done in the one paddock with no breaks in shifting, and the use of an electric bag sower. In Mr McKay’s view the production of 500 or 600 bags* off the header in a day is “fairly good going.” Perhaps some readers have done better than Mr McKay?
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29234, 18 June 1960, Page 9
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