A LARGE PLOUGH.
The largest plough ever manufactured in Stockton is now being made at the shops of Matteson and Williamson, to the order of H. Barohart. The plough is designed for work in the tules, and is a formidable looking implement. It will eat a furrow thirty -eight inches wide. The mould board is eight feet long from the point to the en 1, sweeping upward with a curre of about four feet radius. At the end it stands two feet above the ground. The land tide is scveu feet long. At the rear a horizontal cutting-plate is arranged to cut under the soil on the land side a distance of ten Inches. The furrow will be cut as shallow ai possible, not exceeding three or four inebes- The plough will be
attached to a sulky, and will require a team of twelve flout animals to pall it. Mr Barn hart's theory in regard to tule ploughing is that the furrows should he as wide as possible and it would be better it the whole sod could he turned over without making a furrovr. It m vrith this and in view that he has ordered the mammoth plough.
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North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2081, 3 January 1879, Page 2 (Supplement)
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199A LARGE PLOUGH. North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2081, 3 January 1879, Page 2 (Supplement)
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