Show BIGGEST PLOW ON EARTH it takes take fifty horse to dr draw this gig antie implement J thompson Is a ranch foreman of california says rays the new york world I 1 he is the man who designed and had manufactured a plow which it took fifty horses or seventy five oxen omen to draw and four men at the handles to guide along a furrow furro this his agricultural tu ral monster is the largest plow in the w world orld and is at present on one of the ranches of the kern county land company near bakersfield at the time that the possibility of this affair dawned upon mr air thompson he was weary of cultivating with a two horse plow the aero acre wheat bhea t field of which ke had charge the top of the plow was five fet above the ground the beam was a foot thick chiek the handles ten afef wt t long and the whole thing was mounted on two eight foot wheels to facilitate turning it at the en end d of the furrows the drivers seat was on the ax axle le of these Vii p eels at the first trial ten horses were hitched to the concern but as soon as ahe he share caught the earth they were unable to move it more horses were brought and still more until there were fifty in all even then it moved very slowly however horses were cheap and their feed cost absolutely nothing and after the secret of mins ging it had been mastered it effected A little saving |