How Much Land Can A Horse Plough In A Day?

We have a quarter acre to plough with our horses. It’s heavy clay soil and still wet from the winter, but reasonably level and well worked over the years. It took us two hours in total to plough which equates to an acre a day - which is what the books tell you a ploughman/woman and their horse could plough in a day. Except we needed two small horses and two of us. And we did it in two sessions..













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