KARAKA

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 378, 24 May 1918, Page 3

KARAKA

PLOUGHING BY MOTOR SUCCESSFUL RESULTS A ploughing outfit consisting of a 10 25 horse power tractor and two ploughs, a single furrow swamp plough turning 22in, and a three furrow Oliver turning 42in wide is engaged in breaking up stme land for Messrs Glasson Bros. The three furrow machine is suitable for grass land and also for fern land, which it is breaking up to a depth of about five inches. The single furrow does very well for gorse and ti tree. Set from seven to eight inches deep, it goes through thick stubbly gorse and standing ti tree, turning them under so that little is visible except the roots. Such land broken in this way should be fit for turnips after working up without a second ploughing. The contractor, Mr L T. Bear, whose advt. appears elsewhere in this issup, says he intends to remain in the district if sufficient, work can be obtained. He recently ploughed about 150 acres of the Jeemond Estate near Runciman, which Mr Harbottle purchased a few months ago from Mr John Fitzgerald. A meeting is to be held to-morrow (Saturday) at 130 p m in No 2 school to .decide on means for the suppression of the rabbit, pest. A general poisoning some time ago produced a good effect, but since then, partly through many of the settlers being away on military service, the vermin have been getting the uppf-r hand.