TIMELY ADVICE FOR PLOUGHMEN

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29384, 10 December 1960, Page 9

TIMELY ADVICE FOR PLOUGHMEN

Some timely advice for New Zealand ploughmen aspiring to compete at the world finals has been given by Mr G. M. Scott, secretary of the New Zealand Ploughing Association, who accompanied the 1960 New Zealand competitor, Mr Barry McPhedran, of Timaru, to Rome as his manager.

“The opinion seems to be that if a man can plough grassland he can plough stubble,” Mr Scott said. “This is not correct to the extent that you can go to a country like Italy and find stubble country entirely different to that which had been anticipated. Practice “Anyone going overseas should gain as much practice in the worst stubble he can find as possible. In New Zealand we could never get stubble as'it was found at Rome. It was on reclaimed land which seemed from the way it turned that it had never been properly ploughed before and it flaked over like pieces of slate. “It was not a matter of excuses but rather a matter of the New Zealand competitor in the future making sure he has as wide an experience as possible of all classes of ploughing. “The New Zealand competitions give full experience of grassland ploughing but it is up to the competitor to practise full digger ploughing before he goes overseas,” Mr Scott said.