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not entitled to a higher premium this year, they were precluded 

 from awarding him any ; but they recommend a gratuity of $4 

 and Farmer's Dictionary. Mr. Carpenter's ploughing was done 

 at a proper depth, but the furrows were cut too narrow ; and 

 one desideratum of good ploughing being to turn the sod over, 

 laying it flat and even, — it cannot be so well done by deep 

 ploughing with a narrow cut. 



Putnam King, of Sutton, Martin's plough, himself plough- 

 man, though not regularly entered, did good service, doing the 

 work in one hour and eight minutes ; and to him we recommend 

 a gratuity of $3 and Washington's Letters. 



Royal T. Marble, of Worcester, with two pair of steers, Rug- 

 gles and Nourse's plough, did his work in one hour and three 

 minutes. This, the committee were unanimously of opinion, 

 was the best, and we may say, most scientifically performed of 

 the whole ploughing; but as he had two yokes of cattle for his 

 work, (the offer of premium is for the best work with only one 

 yoke,) they recommend a gratuity of $3 and Farmer's Dic- 

 tionary. 



Stephen Salisbury and Asa Matthews exhibited the operation 

 of the sub-soil plough, following another plough, both of Rug- 

 gles and Nourse's manufacture. This was a novel and interest- 

 ing operation, and probably new to most of the spectators. The 

 committee were very much gratified with the performance, per- 

 fectly loosening and pulverizing the soil to the depth of sixteen 

 inches, and preparing the ground to resist the effects of severe 

 drought, or extreme wet weather ; and the committee think 

 that those who wish to dig for gold, have only to plough deep, 

 like the operation of the sub-soil plough, and they will be sure to 

 find it. 



John W. Lincoln also exhibited the operation of the sub-soil 

 plough without the common plough preceding it; the object be- 

 ing the drainage of wet land upon a side-hill, being afterwards 

 sowed with grass-seed and smoothed with a roller. But this 

 being a mere experiment, and having never been tested, the 

 committee can pronounce no opinion upon the result, but hope 

 the farmers of Worcester County may have cause hereafter to 

 thank Col. Lincoln for the experiment. 



