In respect of steam or motor ploughs a rather more
elaborate arrangement prevails. Members are required
to give notice by a certain date of the extent of land that
they propose to have ploughed — thus, say, if the employ-
ment is to be the breaking up of cloverley, by ist May,
otherwise by ist July, particulars to be given at the time
as to whether it is to be for ploughing up stubble or furrow-
ing for autumn com, or else for spring com or roots. To
each particular operation a certain limited time is allotted,
so as not to wrong the members succeeding in the order
fixed for the season, whether it be by ballot or by amicable
arrangement, or by a mixture of the two, such as is some-
times resorted to, so as to give the later customer of one
season the chance of becoming an early one in the next.
To the substance of his notice every member is bound.
He will have to get a certain acreage of land ploughed
or else pay for it.
