DOUBLE FURROWED PLOUGHS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 798, 23 June 1870, Page 3

DOUBLE FURROWED PLOUGHS.

The Otago Daily Times of a-recent date has the following:—Amongst the improvements in agricultural : machinery recently introduced into the colony may be mentioned double furrowed ploughs. One of these (PirieV patent, Aberdeen) has just been imported by Mr Thomas Fleming, and is now at work upon his farm, South Tokomairiro, giving every satisfaction. These ploughs are carried on large angular-rimmed wheels, which while they carry the weight also resist pressure exerted in lifting and turning the furrow. They have neither sides nor soleplates, and are thus free from friction; the cutting parts of the coulters? and shares are constructed so as to make room for the rest of the plough, and only the mould board touches the soil. Thus the power required to work the plough is reduced to at least one-third, while, as they guide themselves, the manual labor required is similar to that of driving harrows. The saving these ploughs effect to the agriculturist is very considerable, as one man and three horses can with ease perform the work of two men and four horses with the single furrow plough. This, where the rate of wages is so high as it is in Otago, is no insignificant item of saving- The special plough referred to is fitted with cast steel skives, mould boards, and shares, one of the skives being adjustable for furrows from eight to seventeen inches wide. It has also right and left-hand levers for adjusting the depth of either furrows, and this can be done without stopping the horses. It is considered far superior to the ordinary plough for raising and loosening the soil, while the furrows are square cut, and completely pressed together, thus saving the use of the presser. It has been used in all sorta of soil—lea, stubble, fallow, &c, and has given entire satisfaction.