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Show uu TRACTOR PLOUGH RECORDS BROKEN LONDON. March 31 (MaiL) New English records for tractor ploughing were set in the annual spring tosts at the new government "Tractor School of Instruction," at Mossley HQL Two types of light tractor plough of the model adopted by the British government gov-ernment as most suitable for British requirements, worked for twelve consecutive con-secutive hours in the tests. The ground was a light soil and the tractors were required to pull four-furrow four-furrow ploughs, the depth of the furrow fur-row being six inches and the land fairly fair-ly level, but slightly rocky. The work accomplished by the ploughs averaged 11.75 acres each, and the fuel consumption con-sumption was 2.46 gallons per acre. The engines were run continuously for the allotted twelve hours. Picketing has been declared legal lu Mb i |