Our Past | Red hot competition to be the district's best ploughman

By Chas Keys
Updated April 26 2021 - 10:55am, first published 10:30am
POPULAR SPORT: Ploughing competitions were popular across NSW in the mid 1800s.
POPULAR SPORT: Ploughing competitions were popular across NSW in the mid 1800s.

'Ploughing matches' were very much a feature of nineteenth century life in rural Australia - but are now largely forgotten.

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