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Eight teams

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Eight teams

Eight four-horse teams plough a 160-hectare paddock in South Canterbury in 1912. The teams worked together, with each team ploughing on the inside of the one in front, so they followed an ever-decreasing circuit.

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Reference: Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1912, C-1

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Carl Walrond, Rural workers – Grain and crops, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17208/eight-teams (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 1 March 2009.