GIANT PLOUGH IN USE
yCIIKM'K AT FLOCK TIOFSE. LAM) VALFH I XCb’EASKn What is claimed to Iv the largest dcgle furrowed plough in the HonF era Hemisphere is now being used a( I lie Hoys’ Flock House at Bells. The [dough, which is drawn by tractor, leaves a furrow three feet wide and IS inches deep. By (he use of (his plough it is claimed that land worth £.l an acre is being increased F' value to £4O an acre. The costs from standing gorse to seed bed are but £■’ 10s an acre. Four hundred acres of river Hat covered with gorse has been treated F the past two years, while an area o ! ' 1000 acres is still waiting treatment.
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Patea Mail, Volume LII, 27 February 1931, Page 4
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120GIANT PLOUGH IN USE Patea Mail, Volume LII, 27 February 1931, Page 4
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