Dalmuir Ploughing Match

DESCRIPTION: Will Aikenhead competes in a ploughing match "in the West Barns of Clyde" and is declared winner after a dispute about timing. The dispute continues after the decision. The old and young class winners are named.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1858 (_Dalmuir Ploughing Match_ broadside from Poet's Box, Glasgow, according to Greig/Duncan3)
KEYWORDS: contest farming
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast #65, p. 1, "The Dalmuir Ploughing Match" (1 text)
Greig/Duncan3 427, "Dalmuir Ploughing Match" (1 text)
Roud #5944
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Vilikens and his Dinah (William and Dinah)" [Laws M31A/B]" (tune, per broadside cited by Greig/Duncan3)
File: GrD3427

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