428 WISCONSEST AGRICULTUEE. 



N. Moulton, Rochester, Wis., sod plow for fallows, . Dip. 



Mitchell, Eacine, Wis., steel crossing plow, ... do 

 Barrows & Lund, Janesville, corn plow, ... do 



Wood & North, Rochester, Wis., sub-soil plow of ingenious con- 

 struction, ........ Dip. 



Barrows & Lund, Janesville, best collection of plows in use in 



the country, etc., Dip. and $5 



Injustice to our Society and those gentlemen who exhibited 

 so great a variety of plows, the committee do not feel at liberty 

 to dismiss the consideration of the subject, without a few passing 

 remarks : 



History informs us that the primitive j)low, with which the 

 ancient Egyptians, who stood at the head of the world alike in 

 science, art and literature, cultivated the alluvial soil of the val- 

 ley of the Nile, was simply a crooked limb from a tree. We 

 could even imagine the striking contrast between the great Cin- 

 cinnatus, when the Roman Senatorial Committee waited on him 

 asking him to leave following his crooked stick and take com- 

 mand of the defence of his country, and a scientific Yankee 

 farmer behind one of the plows on exhibition at our Pair. 



How great the change ! and yet the principal improvement 

 has been made within the present century, and in the United 

 States, at that. 



The chairman of your committee has seen the Spanish and 

 Portugese, who have remained stationary in the arts for centu- 

 ries, plowing with the crooked stick, drawn by a cow and ox, 

 attached by thongs of green hide, hitched to the horns of the 

 animals. So nice was the competition between the plows ex- 

 hibited, that the committee found it very difficult to determine, 

 without a practical use of each, which was really best, and when 

 they award, as they have, they do not wish to be understood as 

 in the least disparaging the others, but would speak commend- 

 ably of plows exhibited by A. W. Parker, Janesville ; the Mich- 

 igan caststeel cross ; the Grand de Tour ; the Brinkerhoff sod 

 and self-holder, by D. Williams, Springfield, Wal. Co., Wis.; 

 and others. 



