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On a power pole in the 400 block Commercial Street.

Plowing Associations were organized. The Cut Arm Ploughing Association was one of the largest in this area. It held its organizational meeting on June 28, 1901. The membership fee was fifty cents. Twenty-one members gave their mailing address as Saltcoats, 20 listed Bredenbury, one was from Crescent Lake, and one from Perley District. At the March 1902 meeting it was agreed to hold a match each year, with competitors using a twelve-inch, one-furrow plow, used on prairie sod. Later other classes were added for different numbers of teams – some 5 or 6-horse teams. Alex Bradford was an outstanding plowman and had several trophy cups to his credit.