INGLEWOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1922, Page 10

INGLEWOOD.

A NEW AID TO BUSH SETTLERS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The introduction into a bush district of any new method or appliance that offers to make easier or cheaper the work of converting land formerly clothed with the primeval forest into cleared country, available for all kinds of cultivation, is bound to attract the attention of those who have any experience of the difficulties such country presents to all who hope to make headway there as farmers, and the announcement* that a fellow-settler is making trial of an alleged improvement is a signal for much wordy conjecture, and a desire to see and judge the merits of the innovation. That this is truly so has lately been proved in the Inglewood neighborhood. Mr. AV. Dean, of Durham Road, has lately purchased an appliance through Newton King, Ltd. (known as “Trewhalla’s monkey horse grubber”) which is w.orked on a system of cog-wheels and pulleys, by horse-power, in praise of which he is very emphatic, declaring that it gives better results in every way than can be got by the use of explosives, at appreciably less cost. On a recent Friday, by the courtesy of Mr. Gibbs, of Newton King Ltd.’s, Inglewood staff, small party was able to visit Mr. Dean’s farm, some three miles up Durham Road West, and see the grubber' at work. That the implement was efficient and rapable of doing the work claimed for it by its advocates, was abundantly proved to the satisfaction of the visitors. Tni eluded in the advantages to the credit -of this method were the following:—That, while extracting stumps and roots, it gathers them together instead of scattering them about for future gathering, as explosions so frequently do; that the working is so simple that an intelligent lad of 16 or 17 years can do all the work necessary, with one horse for the power; that the machine is so compact as to be easily moved from place to place as needed; one man can wheel it over open ground or two can carry it over rough places; that it 's capable of a null of 1 5 tons at a radius qf 19 feet from its anchor direct, or with snatch block 30 tons at 160 feet.

Other advantages, too, could be mentioned, but it is best for those who wish to learn more about this valuable help to bush farmers to enquire for themselves and see an actual demonstration of its work and possibilities, when little doubt of its value will be left in their minds, and the hope will surely rise that more ranid conversion of wild bush land into smiling, productive homesteads is within reasonable reach of the pioneef settlers of the Dominion, and quicker progress in the development of the fertile country now encumbered with forest growing on it. or the remains where it has been felled, may he confidently i expected. (Published by Arrangement.)