■■A Chicago journal (The Factory and ■ the Farm) gives an account of the largest plough ever known .to be made, recently: ■■ turned out by an Illinois firm, of agricul- • tural inaohinery makers, for use on the St._ Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway. It is calculated tp cut a ditch / thirty inches wide and two feet deep, and / ; is worked by attaching it to a platform ,■'" ' car of a' construction train by means of.'/■ timbers trained and extending out, so / that the plough cuts its ditch .a .sufficient distance from the track., lit cuts #?v furrow eight inches deep; each' time, reW >4 quiring three of them'to reach: the ptopef Y depth, and it will-make one mile of ditjJT: : -' two feet deep and thrae feetwide em,: :r ')o~ fonr houfai doine the^eric-o^OOfctio..' S .The beam .is made of eight inches by. U'inchesy the land•being made/of wideband':';';':; ;'■ inch ; thick, which'Vhad ~tb be iorjjed expressly forihejpurpbse. rs 17001b.; ;The :use ( 6f liilploughvwill>« mark an erain allditching; wjir¥jißeciall£^M
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 498, 24 June 1880, Page 2
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