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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 67, 7 February 1883, Page 3

A writer says that a year's experience with broad waggon wheels is conclusive as to their value. A four-inch tire will carry two tons over soft ground with greater ease to the team than a two and a half-inch tire will carry one ton. The wheels are not so much strained by stones and rough tracts on the road, and the road is not cut up, but, on the contrary, is packed down and keeps smooth. The prevalent idea that the draught is increased by widening the tire is altogether baseless : on the contrary, a wide tire reduces the draught. The extra cost of the tire is repaid many times over every year .ii} the extra work- that can be done r by. a team. — Ellesmere Guardian. " Here* waiter, bring me some water to Tut La my wine. I always like my wire Wttered."— Waiter: "Oh I then, sir, you won't want any P I put plenty in before bringing it to you, sir.'