PLOUGHING
Sir,—I have read your interview with Mr Sturrock on ploughing. My experience is that the plough is not at fault; it is the land. Owing to the continued ploughing at a certain depth a hard pan is formed and the heavy rams last winter made the land waterlogged. Then the severe dry weather in the summer made it very hard. When land becomes hard to Plough the usual thing the ploughman does is to put on new shares. That gives the plough too much grip and tends to throw the plough on its -nose. My experience has taught me to grind old shares. When they come in contact with the hard pan they just travel to that depth. Old ifhares ground also make good work of skimming old grass paddocks. The ploughing of land to-day is different from what it was 40 years ago, as the humus has been cropped out and the soil has become hard.—Yours, etc., J. SOWDEN. Rangiora, June 6, 1946.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24895, 7 June 1946, Page 9
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