g MAINE STATE SOCIETY. 



of bis liorsc in many instances, for an exhibition of his speed. 

 Your committee would recommend to tlie trustees to offer a 

 premium of $200 for the best plowing, and $10 for the fastest 

 horse. 



Your committee are of the opinion that A. C. Maxfield is 

 entitled to the first premium. To say that Mr. Maxfield is a 

 good teamster and owns a good team, would be faint praise, for 

 your committee are unanimous in the opinion, that it never was 

 their privilege to witness the exhibition of training and disci- 

 pline, which was displayed by those noble animals. Your com- 

 mittee express the wish, that all teamsters would use the same 

 gentle treatment in the management of the horse. He used 

 Mason & Xourse's large plow, and performed his work in thirty- 

 live minutes. 



The first premium to double team of W. S. Grant, Hersey's 

 plow. South Paris, in sixty-five minutes. 



Your committee find that some things can be done as well 

 as others, and that plows can be made in the backwoods of 

 Maine, and any in want of a plow that will do the work " finally 

 and well," need look no further for them than at South Paris, 

 Oxford county, Maine. 



The second premium to H. C. Burleigh, with Webber & Havi- 

 land's plow, Waterville, and very little inferior to Hersey's. 



The third to Frederick Marston, with Prouty k Mears' double 

 Michigan plow. 



The first premium on single team to Samuel Milliken, with the 

 Berwick plow. 



The second premium to J. G. Field, with the J. E. Robinson 

 plow. 



The third premium to A. Leighton, with Xourse <t Mason's 

 plow. 



The fourth premium to F. Proctor, with the Berwick plow. 



The fifth premium to Thomas Newman, plow unknown. The 

 lots contained one-eighth of an acre, and the time occupied, 

 varied from thirty to sixty-seven minutes. There was some 

 difference in the lots and due allowance was made. 

 Respectfully submitted. 



Thomas Mabry, Chairman. 



