FREETRADE AND PROTECTION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1869, 16 June 1888, Page 3

FREETRADE AND PROTECTION.

TO THE EDITOB. 51%,— 1 notice In vonr isaop of yesterday s report of a trial of a new machine lor ploughing, discing, and harrowing at One operation. I was one of those Innocent persons who after reading reports of trials la other parts of tho couutry and the advertisement appearing In your Aolamna went to some Inconvenionce to see the li> called new digger triad. You, Sr, may imagine my disgust when on arriving at Mr Markey's farm I found, Instead of anything new, an Implement of » very old type, the nowost thing about It being the OODStrnotion of the frame, aod thataolose copy of what may very fairly be called a "New Zsatand plough frame," the so-called digging part of the plough being nothing newer than an American breast and share, the only part of the plough the makers caa have any claim to being the akim coulters— -common skim coulters, the Identical pattern used by our grandfathers. The work done by this combination of •nilqcated parta vr&t as near as possible what one might expect from an American gang plough, and any ordinary plouzh might be made to do the same kind of work by substituting for ekeiths th<» emnmon skim ccnlters, and adding a tail piece to the upper pirt of mould bard. This plan would not only do as gcoda spec! men of dlj?glng,asthey calllt.astheso oilled saw digger, hut would be of considerably lighter draught. One thing more; explain It Protectionists if you can. Under Freetrade the whole thing as shown jeaterday could be made by New Z?aland Implement firms and sold for at least two pounds les* than thd prioa of the Imported article. — I am, etc, Plough Boy.