A NEW PLOUGH.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 878, 7 February 1879, Page 3 (Supplement)

A NEW PLOUGH.

At Torowi, one of the South Australian new wheat-growing districts, a trial is reported of a new patent plough, invented by Mr. R. Cameron, of Kapunda. The plough turns four furrows at once, and is so constructed with patent overhead gearing, that it raises the plough completely out of the ground at the headlands, and it can be turned in its own length with the greatest ease. It has four large wroughtfron wheels that can be raised by the movement of a handle so as to allow the plough to work at any required depth : or, reversing, will raise the plough entirely off the ground, when it can easily be removed from place to place on its own wheels. The inventor claims for this plough the following advantages :—First, the plough on ordinary lands turns four furrows of the usual width and depth with six horses and only one mau ; second that the plough will work lighter than two ordinary double-furrow ploughs, as all the weights is borne or carried by the wheels, and the only resistance which the horst-s have to contend with is that caused by the furrows while being moved by the shares ; third, by the great saving of time the ploughing can all be done earlier in the season, and also there is the clear saving of the labor of one man ; fourth, the plough is so constructed that a boy can guide it, neither does it require a skilled ploughman —anyman who can drive horses is all that is necessary to satisfactorily work the plough. The land on which the trial took place was virgin ground, and, was, moreover, of a very stiff nature. The trial is stated by the local press to have been in every respect a most unqualified success.