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Excitement builds as each contestant completes their section.15
Walking plow competition International Plowing Match 20032003
Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada
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Note the tent city in the background where the many events are held. Displays are exciting and vendors are offering a wide variety of products and items for sale providing a wide range of choices for all the visitors.17
Lloyd Van Dusen, with his horses Amos and Don, plowing a straight furrow.2003
Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada
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Demonstrating that plowing competition is not just for the young, 82 year old Lloyd Van Dusen with horses Amos and Don, plow a straight furrow during competion.19
Poster for International Plowing Match 20032003
Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada
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The walking plow and horses still are a prominent subject featured in the advertising for the plowing matches today.21
Brochure for International Plowing Match and Rural Expo2004
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The 2004 International Plowing Match andFarm Machinery Show will carry on tradition in Meaford, Ontario, Canada.
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One horse hitch1900
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Plowing was not all competition. A good man with one horse could plow one acre per day.25
Two Horse Hitch1900
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Work you Can do with HorsesThe two horse team will:
plow 11/2 to 2 acres per day
disc 10 acres per day
harrow 10 to 12 acres per day
drill 6 to 10 acres per day
plant 8 acres per day
cultivate 8 acres per day
mow 8 acres per day
rake 16 acres per day
or do wagon work 25 miles per day.
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Three Horse Hitch1900
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