16S PLYMOUTH SOCIETY. 



To S. S. Lovell, Bridge water, 2d best do. do. $4 00— having 

 given 207 lbs. in ten days in June, which made 9| lbs. butter — 

 ten days in Sept. 147 lbs. which made 10^ lbs. 



JOHN TILDEN, Chairman. 



Ploughing Match. 



The ploughing match has ever been considered the most ex- 

 citing and most interesting part of our annual exhibition : and, 

 at former exhibitions, all have been allowed the privilege of wit- 

 nessing the operations, whose inclination led them to the field. 

 Not so to-day ; your committee have been deprived of this pleas- 

 ure, and for what reasons, they have not been advised, but left 

 to conjecture. Your committee was directed to a piece of land, 

 by one of the committee of arrangements, in whom we place 

 much confidence, for through him, and by him, was our only 

 source of information. Your committee have no personal 

 knowledge, whether the land presented to them for examination 

 was ploughed, to-day, by competitors, or yesterday, by experi- 

 menters ; and regret that they could not have been an eye-wit- 

 ness to a piece of work, of which they are to be the final judges. 

 But, as our course was marked out, in which we were to tread, 

 we could not follow the footsteps of our predecessors, and, hav- 

 ing no disposition to take the responsibility, we know not whether 

 to congratulate the society, or sympathize with them in the 

 prospect before them. 



Twenty teams were entered for premiums, and eighteen were 

 present and ploughed. Where twenty teams are entered for 

 seven premiums, and all plough well, it is not an easy task for 

 a committee to say who has ploughed best of all. But your 

 committee have the pleasure of saying, although much we may 

 have erred in judgment, we have been unanimous in our opin- 

 ions, and award premiums to the following persons : — 



Van R. Swift, 1st $9 00 Prouty & Co's. 



Newton Mitchell, 2d 8 00 Ruggles & Co's. 



Mark P. Hudson, 3d 7 00 " " 



