The great advantage of the rotary disc mower over the reciprocating cutter-bar (sickle bar) mower is that it will keep cutting without blocking up even in bad conditions of laid and tangled crop and in grass which is thick and wet in the bottom. This is why nobody uses anything other than high-speed rotary mowers in the maritime areas of western Europe.

There are three main classes of chemical sheep wormers used in Britain. Sheep worms are becoming resistant to all three of them. That’s not the way to go. Routine use of chemical wormers is the best way of building up drug resistance and, itself, is an indication of poor management. Drug addiction is no good for man nor beast. In this short article I propose to set out how I have kept farm horses clear of worms for many years without any drugs. Any system has a few rules. These are mine: