A SWINGLE-TREE FOR ORCHARD WORK.
For ploughing in orchards or amongst any trees the contrivance represented in the accompanying cut will be found most useful. It is called "Weir's single -ttee,". and by its use a person can plough quite close up to rowb of young trees without fear of injuring them by tearing the bark or breaking them when caught by the ordinary, olough chains or hooks, or the ends of the bar.
As will be seen leathor traces are used which pass round the ends of the bar. v and / are hitched on to- iron hooks fastened -»t the centre of the back of the bar.- TfhU arrangement enables a ploughman 1 toWn over the whole Foil of an orchard, jrfst^d of leaving a strip more or less wi,de pfong each side of a row of trees. /
Always at the foot of t*e clasB|— The dancing-master. / _/ I The Gei^man population oE KdwYork is given as 350,000. / The Chinese colony in ; Chicago con isba of 2,000 souls, of whom only twy are \jomen.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 286, 1 August 1888, Page 6
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174A SWINGLE-TREE FOR ORCHARD WORK. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 286, 1 August 1888, Page 6
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