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P, S. The committee wish it distinctly understood, that the 

 failure of this trial was not owing to any deficiency in the prepara- 

 tions made which could have been anticipated as at all probable. 

 Mr. Calvin Chamberlain, the member of the Board of Trustees 

 charged with this department, labored unremittingly for many weeks 

 to secure all desirable facilities, and when the trial commenced, 

 everything was in readiness. Two dynamometers, the best the 

 country could then aflFord, had been procured, and it was only the 

 larger size of the plows, requiring motive power beyond their capacity 

 to indicate, which prevented the measurement of their draft and the 

 award of the premiums offered. 



