Agricultural and Pastoral.

Otago Witness, Issue 986, 22 October 1870, Page 16

Agricultural and Pastoral.

THE GANG PLOUGH.

The American Gang Plough, introduced into the colony by Captain Baldwin, and which we recently noticed, was ' again tried during last week on the ground behind Mr Brodrick's house at Caversham. The trials, which took place on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, were attended by a number of gentlemen from town, and also from the country and some of the other provinces. The results were very much more satisfactory than on the first occasion. From what we can learn, it appears that, as indeed we suggested was probably the case, the man working it had not had sufficient experience to enable him to know exactly what to do with it, but that it was discovered that by raising the pole it worked very muoh better, the furrow being more even, and the earth properly turned over. The plough was not intended to leave the regular furrows that we are accustomed to in hand ploughing, bat the advantage gained by rapidity, the earth being at the same time thoroughly broken up, may be considered fully to counterbalance that, which in America has not the importance attached to it that it has in England. The gentlemen who have seen it at work since the alteration has been made in the manner of hitching it, express great satisfaction with the way in which it does its work.