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Public Notices, HOWARDS DOUBLE - FURROW PULVERISING PLOUGH DBPESBM WITH BEUI PLOUGHING, BUBSOILINO, DISC HARROWING, &o H AKD lfatbs the soil ready fob tils DRILL IN ONE OPERATION. ■ THE TRIAL AT ASHBURTON. A PUBLIC TRIAL Of Tis New ARrionltarol Machine Called HOWARD'S DOUBLE-FURROW DIGGING ; PLOUGH, Tcok Place on Juno 14, tinder the Auspices ol THE ASHBURTON A. ahd P. ABBUCiiTIOn, At Mr 1. Mar key’a Farm, Ashburton The weather wa« fine, ani there was a fair attendance of farmers and others. The land used for the trial was an o!d grass paddock of stiffish ouftlity end In sense places densely covered with twitch, which rendered the trial a severe one. All difficulties were surmounted by the Plough, which bro'«e up thoroughly various widths and depths of farrow, leaving the land ready for the seed, and burying the grass and weeds completely. The thoroughness of the work met with grant praise, and there is no doubt that the implement will before long cease to be a stranger to Colonial farmers. The tom Digging Plough scarcely expresses the manner by which the work is done. The Plough is ft the now invariable lever pattern. Its principal differencerto other double-furrow ploughs consists in the shape of the mould-boards. Those are abort, and their curves are in the opposite direction to those oc ordinary ploughs, that is to say, their faces are concave instead of being convex. On the wing of each mould-board is an adjustable Bdojeoting'plate, which breaks■ up any stiff lumps Which may copae ipahroken off the mould-hoard. On light friable land this is not much called Into use. la of each mould-board is a small Bkim Plough, consisting of a share and a peculiarly Shaped small mould-board.. The share-poiats are chisel or wedge-shaped, and have the advantage of being reversible when worn. This shape gives the ■tare a bettor grip in the earth than the oldpoicted shares. The'shin-pilce acts aa a coulter, ■nd is also reversible. All the wearing parts are »f chilled iron, and 'combine durability with fghtness. Tn work ihn Hkitn Plough takes off the grass or torf from the surface, anil turns it into the furrow. The Concave Ploughs follow on the track of the Skim Ploughs, cutting furrow any width up to eixteen inches, and depth to twelve inches. Th-i furrow is taken up completely on the front of the mould board, of which the peculiar shape and abruptness of the curves thoroughly pulverise the e -rth, at the same time burying in the bottom of the furrow all vegetation and solid manure which may have been on the surface. When ths ■oil >s si iff or clayey, snddiffioult of pulverisation, the adjustable projecting plato receives the earth eff the mould-board, «nd completes its breakingnp. . Tbe ad rant-503 of this Plough are that i»s use disp-nres with the Skim Ploughing, which is, under the ordinary method, a necessary pre.imi. nary process in the breaking np of lea land; and also with tbe disc-harrowing, which often baa to ollow ordinary ploughing. It will also be found that on most of the Canterbury farming land, this Plough will tender harrowing before the drill unnecessary. It prepares' a much better seed bod than any system of ploughing and harrowing yet adopted, its work being equal to spade cultivation. The fullest lerlility of the soil is thus developed and made use of, and correspondingly increased yields will consequently 10110 w. AS TO COST 1 The.Donblo.Forrow Digging Plough is just ths tame price as the best makes of an ordinary VJouble-Punow Plough, while Shares cost only 61 each. The materials of construction being all of the best material, and the wearing parts rovjrsible, repairs are onlr required at long intevaJs, and »■ already shown. worn parts can be replaced at triiliug cos c. Draught varies, of course, according to the quality of land and dimensions of furrow, but foe tbe quantity and nature of the work done the tone-power required is comparatively light. With buhoiees, two furrows fifteen by six were easily tamed; in skim ploughing, two sixteen iuch (maws were taken ; aud iu stubble, two of fourteat by twelve have been ploughed ready for . drilLag by the oue operation. Hr B»nger, from Messrs E. Peace and Sone, iristchifth, represented the makers, aud Air O. rA«U, Secretary, Ashburton A. and P. mociatiV 1 fti reeled the trial, which, aa wo have ready was most successful. «S«S Booked for a Limited **%, J. and F. HOWARD of same type ' \ \ /AGENTS 1 EDWARD REECE & SOBS, 'WHOLESALE BET AIL IRONMONGERS, COLOMBO STREET, CHRISTCHCRCEU