"GANG " AND "SULKY" PLOUGHS.
[TO MR EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."]
notice in a recent number of the Spectator which, owing to the kindness of the Victoria League, comes every week, that, so many of your men having enlisted, women were doing farm-work, and it was mentioned as something very much out of the common that a woman had been seen ploughing. Might. I suggest that if the English farmers would use " sulky" or " gang " ploughs, the women folks could very easily do the ploughing? The sulky " turns oue furrow fourteen or sixteen inches wide. It is provided with a seat for the driver, and levers which lift the plough out of the ground at the end of the furrow, and also regulate the depth of ploughing. The " gang " turns two twelve- or fourteen-inch furrows, and is provided with seat and levers like the " sulky." Three horses will handle the "sulky " and five the " gang." To either of these ploughs a small harrow can be attached which does the harrowing at the same time. So that a woman who is at all acquainted with horses could it on the seat of a gang," and plough two furrows, and harrow at the same time, one woman doing the work of
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