CULTIVATOR TRIAL

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5081, 19 July 1895, Page 2

CULTIVATOR TRIAL

A most severe test was given yesterday afternoon to Messrs P. and D. Duncan's new patent spring-tooth cultivator, on the farm of Captain ■ Hohnwood, Opaki, the machine, howovor, came off triumphant, and satisfied the farmers present that for dealing with couch and like dirty ■ ground, it will be hard to beat. The . > land operated on was simply ono k great interwoven mat of fibres, find to make it worse, had been left very - ; rough, on account of the season, which made the ground diffl.. cult to cultivate, preyious to being sown down in turnips. The cultivator was drawn by four good horses, and three strokes were given to ' tho worst part of the ground, with tho result that the couch—greatest enemy to successful culfcP* vator was torn into shreds and ' left on the surface. Mr G, J. Wallace, of Messrs Wallace andMasson, of Carterton, agents for the makers was present, and explained that the tines of this particular cultivator had been tent out a lighter guage than ' that ordered, but they had withstood the test. Several orders were booked , on-the ground. We understand that during the last two weeks the agents have taken orders for over adozen cultivators, as the result of the trials held by them, a