Reid & Gray's Drain Plough

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 142, 30 June 1888, Page 3

Reid & Gray's Drain Plough

: ♦ : A few months ago we gavo a report 'iof a trial of one of Reid and Gray's drain ploughs, which have recently ~~. been introduced into the district. That trial took place on Mr Jenkins' farm, xiear Gore, and although successful it was ossentially a " dry" triaL The drains left by the plough were -"shown i;o be perfect enough, but there^ being no water on the land at that time of the year, it was naturally impossible to -show anj water running through them. A trial of a different description was made yesterday on the farm of Messrs Walker BroS., of Otama, who havo reLeently purchased one of these ploughs, isfo public notic© was given Vof the -trial, and consequently there was .•Only a limited number of farmers in attendance— some 15 or 20— at the fe invitation of '-the Messrs Walker. Tho : Tt^at was, however, a complete success. ; "The plough waM put to work in a paddock which ; was fairly saturated -with water, being in most places over -the boot-tops, and the drains were made 10 f eot apart at a depth of from >18in. to 20in. "Twelve horses drew ihe imploment, and owing to the softmess of the ground had a very easy job, the owners of the land reckoning ithat with such a team they oould do 12 miles a day comfortably. The -water ran into the openings as fast as they wore made, and when the drains mere dug open — as oach ~one wais — „ j-fAyratar was 'seeing running through WtKmmwKia. stream which nearly filled *Tthe opening. All of those present exipresilathemselves aB particularly well satisfied with the result of the trial, : .. ancUtho owners of the land ploughing wvi&un a week, whereas, if undrained, iit 4r»«uld he .three months before a plough «ould be put into it. = Mr John JMcKensa, who was one of those pre- . ■ sent, -was.-so pleased with tho implement that he ordered one on the spot for his.«owa nse, -and we have no doubt ihat next season there will be plenty of them* at work all over the district' in which are hundreds of acres which <can only be turned to good account by means of systematic draining. — . Ensign.