PLOUGHING BY MOTOR
Tli© first ploughing in Waikato by motor traction is at present being carried out at the Ruakura Farm of Instruction on a stubble field of some 23 acres in extent (says the ‘(Argus”). The plant being used is an I.H.C. oil-driven motor tractor of 20bors© power, and a five-furrow Mogul gang plough. The plough is fitted with two sets of mould-boards, ono -foc-stub-
ble and the other for grass lands, the latter haring a longer breast, which turns the sward over in broad even furrows. The stubble boards were in use the other day, and a width of just on 6ft was turned up on each breadth, each mould board turning over 11 inches. The plough, which is the first of its kind in the Dominion, has adjustable levers to each mould board, fitted with a wooden pin, which breaks should any undue obstruction be mot with, and throws this portion out or action, without doing any damage.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8338, 25 January 1913, Page 2
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161PLOUGHING BY MOTOR New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8338, 25 January 1913, Page 2
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