A Wairarapa farmer, Mr -Hugh Morrison, of A-watoitoi, has proved the practicability of an American implement Sor cutting/, trenches for ...drain:', pipes, arid thereby 'considerably reducing; the cost of :drainingn.\veti;l3.nd. ..f Judging :by. tb>; experience of Mr Morrison, f tne l will idigia ditch. lOm.-widel by : 28irf idee©, at"the'.Tate: of about, a;," mije^andr-a halt a day, and at a cost of ;from v..4d-to £d., a chain. Of .coui < of Agriculture/*' it'ip ix-ftt .rpopsibje' tycut draing'vljy me.cba'mc&l m'ean^'''wheire;.'*" e . fjbil, is of a very intractable.nature, but in" the • great majority of our soils the method should present no difficulty.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 19 February 1915, Page 2
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