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DISCRETIONARY PREMIUMS. 



A bushel Soles wheat — Joel Bardwell, "first rate." 

 A bushel seed corn in ears ; Ohio dent, R. Tapper. 

 A basket yellow corn in eare, J. W. King. 



RECOMMENDATORY NOTICE. 



Seed wheat, exhibited by R. B. Perry, "very nice." 



PLOWS AND PLOWING. 



Judges — Lewis Buckingham, H. L. Wilcox, Alanson Hunger, 

 Breaking up plows for general purjjoses — 1st premium to A. Crapser; 



2d to Benjamin Boomer. 

 Plows for single team, for general purposes — 1st premium to Elisha 



Taylor; 2d to R. B. Perry. 

 Plowing with horses — 1st premium to Benjamin Boomer, (plow held 



by Asa Uttley ;) 2d to Elisha Taylor, (plow held by John Burch;) 



3d to R. B. Perry. 

 Plowing with oxen — First premium to A. Crapser. 



DISCRETIONARY PREMIUMS. 



E. Rockafellow, for plowing with horses. 

 E. Rockafellow, for breaking up plow. 

 E. Rockafellow, for single plow. 



The committe have satisfaction in reporting that all the plowing was 

 executed in a handsome and workmanlike manner; and it required 

 some consideration to decide upon the awards. Mr. Boomer's team, to 

 which the first premium is awarded, did the work, as the committee 

 think, in rather more a scientific manner than the others ; but all was 

 good. 



There was no competition in plowing with oxen, but Mr. Crapser 

 performed his work in so superior a style, that the committee have no 

 hesitation in considering him entitled to the first premium. 



The plows all worked well ; and the committee consider that the 

 jointer used upon the plow of Mr. Perry, is an improvement worthy of 

 general adoption. 



The Executive Committee held its last meeting on the 7th of De- 

 cember, when the Chairman of the Viewing Committee on Farms at- 

 tended, and submitted the following report : 



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