No. 1 represents the plough ready to enter the ground, showing the ball at end of plough which makes a 3-inch drain; No. 2 shows the plough being drawn by 12 horses, the plough being 21 inches deep in the ground. No. 3 shows the plough out of the ground, running back to a, fresh drain. 'The Plough, a Reid and Gray, is drawn by 12 horses. The drains are from 25ft to 30ft apart, longitudinally, and from 20 inches to 21 inches deep. Cross drains are put in at all depressions at a depth of 2ft llin. This cheap and expeditious means of draining must prove a great boon to farmers having clay lands. By its means the productive power and value of such land can be largely and permanently increased at a comparative y trifling cost of from 7s to ISs per acre, according to the distance drains are placed.
JUDGING THE MARES WITH FOALS AT FOOT
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Otago Witness, Issue 3115, 26 November 1913, Page 44 (Supplement)
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159No. 1 represents the plough ready to enter the ground, showing the ball at end of plough which makes a 3-inch drain; No. 2 shows the plough being drawn by 12 horses, the plough being 21 inches deep in the ground. No. 3 shows the plough out of the ground, running back to a, fresh drain. 'The Plough, a Reid and Gray, is drawn by 12 horses. The drains are from 25ft to 30ft apart, longitudinally, and from 20 inches to 21 inches deep. Cross drains are put in at all depressions at a depth of 2ft llin. This cheap and expeditious means of draining must prove a great boon to farmers having clay lands. By its means the productive power and value of such land can be largely and permanently increased at a comparative y trifling cost of from 7s to ISs per acre, according to the distance drains are placed. JUDGING THE MARES WITH FOALS AT FOOT Otago Witness, Issue 3115, 26 November 1913, Page 44 (Supplement)
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