HORSES ON FARMS
REPLACING TRACTORS. “CHEA PER MAINTENANCE.” Dunedin, June 6. There is a decided tendency on the part of farmers to reinstate the draught horse, and at a horse sale this week there sjvaa a particularly good, demand for young draughts, most of the offerings going to farmers. Good aged horses also sold well, and altogether the sale was one of the most satisfactory from the vendors’ point of view. In view of the fact that the land in Canterbury and Southland is particularly amenable to treatment from tractor-drawn implements it seems strange that at the local sale so many fine draught animals were knocked down to buyers from these provinces. However, the position is probably explained by an observation by a southern. landowner: —. “I can grow my own oats, but I cannot grow my own petrol,” lie stated. The suggestion that Australian farmers also are replacing the tractor with horses for city use is not so noticeable.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 June 1932, Page 2
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