A STEAM PLOUGH.
Two enormous traction engines ate placed about three to five hundred yards apart. ’Beneath each engine and bolted to the boiler is a steel drum about five feet in diameter. To these drums is at. tached a steel cable about three-quarters of an inch in diameter, five hundred yards long, and capable of sustaining a weight of thirty tons, which drags the plough to and fro across the field. On the arrival of the plough at the end of the furrow, the gauge changes position, and the ploughs that have been in the air are lowered and ready to start back One man is sufficient to guide the plough, and seated over the body of the machine directs one or two large wheels in the furrow last turned by means of a hand wheel. Each engine is about forty horsepower and weighs about sixteen tons. When the plough reaches one side of the field, the engine on that side moves ahead eight feet, the operation taking three and one half minutes only, and the plough is scurted back' to the other side of the field The plough will break from twenty-five to 35 acres per day, according to the soil, location and lay of the land, etc. It is also usjd for harrowing.—Prairie Farmer.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1075, 24 February 1883, Page 1
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217A STEAM PLOUGH. Temuka Leader, Issue 1075, 24 February 1883, Page 1
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