PLOUGHING EXTRAORDINARY: An EXAMPLE to SETTLERS OR FARMERS.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1661, 27 February 1883, Page 2

PLOUGHING EXTRAORDINARY: An EXAMPLE to SETTLERS OR FARMERS.

TO TUB KDITOII. Sir. — There is an old saying that you must go away fioin home to hear news. In one of my English newspapers received by the last mail I find the following. Will any of your correspondents inform me through your columns if it is a fact, as I must say I am doubtful about it, as, although an old resident in the Waikato, I have never he.ud of it : — " A tact worthy to be noted was accomplished in ISSO by two young men of Waikato in New Zealand. They settled down on a holding of open land ; they had six horses, haTf-a-seore of cows and calves, and no one else but themselves to assist in anything. They had two double-furrow ploughs, to which they attached thiee horses abreast, and these two men ploughed' ll hundred acres -of land, and sowed it down to giass,' with the necessary harrowing, &c , in the space of 12 months, besides attending' fp the housekeeping, milking, and other work of the farm." The paper from which this is an extract is Land mid Wntu . Trusting that you may think the above of sufficient interest to insert, — I am, &c. Rnyricus. Haiapepe, Pcb 22, 1883.