TRIPLE-FURROW PLOUGHS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 283, 20 March 1877, Page 4

TRIPLE-FURROW PLOUGHS.

la the OUI Chantey, to economise tabor, a new triple plough drawn by horses is ex - citing: attention. This simple and elective implement ploughs np three furrows at once, and is likely to prove very valuable, not only in England, where tabor is dear, fcttt in other countries, where, with; variable climate, targe tracts of land have to be ploughed up (tuictcty by horses, or The double plough, which cuts two furtows at ©nee, is not, however, as many •appose, a modern implement, it having been in use so long ago as the middle of last century. It is only during the fast few years that the double ptough has been used to any great extent in llngtand, while in many other-countries, where immense tracts of virgin sod are brought tinder cultivation every year, it is comparatively an unknown implement. This is the more surprising when? it is. considered that one man with three horses can, with- a double-fnrvow plough, do as much Work as two men with t'onr horses—thus ensuring a direct saving of at ftast onethird during each working ih»y, so that double ploughs, as many farnn rs in the Mother Country lave practically demonstrated, soon pay for themselves by the economy they «ffk:t in tabt xtr and horses. In England the various agr:cutaur»l societies are fully alive to the importance; of this matter, and thus we see that at their Annual I'toiiglving Matches, several of the most important prizes are allotted to classes in which double pfoughs only are allowed to compete.. By the mail just in we have received a report of the r ast of these competitions for 187&, which took place in December, at C'ottenhain, near Cambridge, tt is said to have been m>t only the last but the largest match in the kingdom. No fewer than 23 teams entered the field, and everyone of them was under the management of the focal ploughmen only. The test was therefore looked upon as fair and gvnuintv professional ploughmen, that is, plonghmafcera* nun with trained horses and racing ploughs being eJtt'tuded. The ploughs were fey Ilwrnsby, Howard, and Kansouie, and the match excited widespread in* terest. After the public dinner, at which there was a large gathering, it was annouced that alt the first and second prises were won with the Howard plough. Next year we may have to. report that the triple plough has so far advanced in the Old Country that, as the double is superseding the single, so- the triple will supplant the doable.