DOUBLE FURROW PLOUGHS.

Southland Times, Issue 1674, 10 December 1872, Page 3

DOUBLE FURROW PLOUGHS.

Sib, — There is no doubt but that the increased value and scarcity of labor at the present time is a powerful stimulant for introducing double furrow ploughs — increased competirton between this country and others in the produce of the soil makes it necessary for the farmer to avail : himself of any machine or imp'ement that Will j lessen the cost of production. Farmers who intend purchaeins double-furrow ploughs at the forthcoming exhibition in TnvercargiU", would do well to choose those which have a lever attached to the front wheel, stretching to the back part of the plough, and in which handles are entirely dispensed with, the plough bdng turned round at the headlands by depressing the land wheel and Bteering the leading furrow wheel, when it wiM turn as easily ns on a cart. A good many people are of opinion that they will not do for breaking up rough and crab-holey ground. That is a mistaken idea. We prefer them to single ploughs, for this reason : the weight of the plough keeps it more steadily in the ground, and it is not so liable to be thrown out, the wheels at the same time keeping it from going too deep. As a rule, too, the furrows are more firmly eloped and packed together. Feering and finishing can also be done with (hem, but where two or more ploughs are kept, the best plnn is to keep a single plough for opening up and finisb/ng, saving time from the shifting of wheels. In almost all cases three horses, harnessed abreast, will do double the work of two horses with a single plough — one man witli a double furrow can do the work of two men wirh einqle ploughs. One great advantage undoubtedly is the great facility they give for getting the work done at the proper time. Altogether they are the best farming implements that have come to the Colony as yet.— Yours, &c, Fabmeb.