PLOUGHING COMPARISON
An item in “The Press” two weeks ago about the development of the colonial plough included a quotation from a manager of Longbeach In 1917 in which he described a man with a three-furrow plough and six horses in yoke and three available for spelling ploughing 80 acres in 11 days—quite a notable feat In those days. At last week’s Lincoln farmers’ conference Mr C. J. Crosble, farm advisory officer (machinery), of the Department of Agriculture, referred to ploughing rates in the article and inquired from his audience about the sort of country that a big plough would get over these days. The answerthree and three-quarter acres an hour with a sixfurrow plough.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31380, 27 May 1967, Page 8
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