Sunday Hight Ploughing.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 29 June 1917, Page 4

Sunday Hight Ploughing.

Sir Arthur Lee, head of the Food Production Department, speaking to an English press represenif.hvi', said the hope of the agricultural vvoric wa3 the getting of tractors. They had secured the services of Mr Perry, managing director of the whole of in* Ford: motor organisation for Europe-, "to insist in collecting and manning and organising these tractors throughout the country. It was only possiblr to sc.v in time for this year's harvest up to April 15. That allowed seven Sunday; during which it was proposed ;.o g<»t the assistance of the clergy of all d.:r>n~inations tu. work on ths on £u days. would not interfere svkli Sunday evening services. The ordinary ploughing day was eight hours. Horses couUi not v.ork longer than that; but machines equipped with acetylene lamps might work 20 hours cat of the 24', and so do 15 weeks' work instead of six weeks if customary hours were observed. People who had driven cars might volunteer for night turns for the urgency period of the next six weeks.