UP-TO-DATE FARMING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3, 24 April 1914, Page 6

UP-TO-DATE FARMING.

PLOUGHING DAY AND NIGHT. At Wellington (X.S.W.), Messrs Pawley, Cain, and Thomas (the two former Englishmen, and the lastnamed an American), who have recently taken up 2000 acres on lease at Goonoo, near Wellington, are ploughing as fast as they,can with a Holt engine, which draws three six-furrow ploughs. They are doing about 50 acres a day, and arc working day and night, using electric light, generated by the engine. The engine goes up stitt' hills with throe ploughs as easily as on the level. The Daily Telegraph says that many of the district farmers are watching this new departure in ploughing and farm work, with great interest, and, in all probability, the result will he a big importation of mechanical traction power, in place of horses. It has been estimated by practical men that it would take 40 horses to do the work this traction engine is now doing, and reckoning the price per horse at £3O, this would mean £I2OO, which is about the cost of the machine.