RETURN OF THE HORSE
Not the least interesting aspect of the efforts of farmers to force down costs is the gradual but very definite return to favour of the horse-team, which fell into some disfavour when the traetor offened a more expeditious method of doxng the work on a farm. The result has been that good types of draught horses are a saleable proposition, and at recent fairs useful animals have commanded good money. The average farmer with a teaxn can generally find enough work to keep it going throughout the year, though at rush times, when he wishes to take advantage of the weather to do soxxxe ploughing or drilling, assistance is necessary. This is where the advantage of a traetor is apparent. But ixx many cases the man who keeps both a teaxn and a traetor will usually use the machine all the year round, while his horses are "eating their lieads off" in the paddoek. The ordinary farmer has to have two or three horses at least about the place.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 239, 30 May 1932, Page 7
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173RETURN OF THE HORSE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 239, 30 May 1932, Page 7
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