A HINT TO FARMERS.
A novel system of seed sowing, and one that almost rivals the work of machinery for speed, is (says the “Ararat Advertiser”) patronised at Challicum by a farmer named M’Donald. Instead of walking over the land on foot, carrying the grain and scattering it broadcast, Mr M’Donald has trained a horse to walk slowly np the furrows, between the lands, which are ploughed a suitable width, and carrying the seed on a saddle in front of him, he scatters it as ho goes along. 3>y this means he is enabled to cover half the land on each side of him, and returning down the next division he completes the half left on one side of him, and sows also half of another one. The horse apparently understands his work, never steppingout of the furrow, and turning at the end of the held into the division between the next two lands. By this aid, we are informed, 40 acres can be sown per day, and thus the work is not only performed speedily, but advantage can be taken of a suitable day, and a large urea put in at once.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2287, 16 July 1880, Page 3
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193A HINT TO FARMERS. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2287, 16 July 1880, Page 3
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