HILLSIDE PLOUGH.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 242, 19 September 1872, Page 7

HILLSIDE PLOUGH.

Messrs. J. and D, M^agoart,

Lawrence.

Gentlemen, — I have much pleasure, in accordance with your wish, and in reply to the many inquiries that have been made with reference to the Hillside Plough you made for me, to give an account of it and its work, as far as my judgment of ploughs and ploughing goes. I can say that 1 have tried the Hillside Plough in breakiug-up and in level stubble ground, and find it to work very well indeed, and also find that it has every

advantage that any other kind of plough that I know of has in working among fern or tutu roots, and is easily heM. I use two light-draught horses in it, and I believe they can draw it a shade easier than my Bwing plough, which is a good, light plough, but I think a little heavier than the Hillside Plough, The only things that needs shifting in the working of the Hillside Plough are the stilts, which can be done with one hand while the horses are coming round. The mouldboards are self-acting, the fur tnrning them nicely into their places as the plough enters into the ground. The only drawback I find in it is the trouble to get the horses to take turn about in the fur, but they soon got accustomed to it

I have no hesitation in recommending it to any person who has hilly ground to plough, and it makes good work on flat ground as well. It affords me pleasure to testify to the merits of your plough, and I should like farmers, both in this and other districts, who have hilly ground, to make themselves acquainted with its principles.

1 am, Gentlemen, Yours truly, D. J. M'Donaid. Glenraore Farm. Tuapeka. — [A dvertise,ment . ]