PLYMOUTH SOCIETY. 169 



Daniel Alden, 4th $6 00 Prouty&Co's. 



William Dunbar, 5th 5 00 Ruggles & Co's. 



Abram Washburn 2d, 6th 4 00 " " 



Darius Dunbar, 7th 3 00 Prouty & Co's. 



To Willard Wood, Horace Ames, and Philo Mitchell, 1 Vol. 

 each of the Mass. Ploughman ; Nahum Tribou, Ira Conant, 

 $1 00 — (drove his team) George H. Wood, 1 do. do. Boston 

 Cultivator. 



Your committee think that more depends on the skill and in- 

 genuity of ploughmen, to accomplish good work, than does a 

 preference to the plough used. 



Your committee regret that, from so large a number who be- 

 long to this society, a committee could not have been, or 

 was not selected, in whom the utmost confidence could be placed ; 

 and hope the society will be fortunate enough, in the selection 

 of their committee in future, to select those whose honesty will 

 not be doubted : for we do not believe that this new mode of 

 disciplining committees, will have a beneficial result. If former 

 committees have been suspected of mingling favor with their 

 awards, your chairman regrets that he has been retained so long, 

 and so often called to serve on a committee of so much import- 

 ance, and shall be disappointed, if not released from further ser- 

 vices. 



AURORA W. OLDHAM, Chairman. 



Supervisor's Report. 



Objections are made against premiums for the greatest crops 

 on single acres, as tending to discourage, rather than improve, 

 general cultivation. There may be instances, in which some 

 individuals confine their whole attention to some favorite fields ; 

 but we suppose this is not the usual result of extraordinary prep- 

 arations for large crops. The evidences of what can be ac- 

 complished, in attentions to a particular field, will be likely to 

 stimulate increased attention to the whole farm. When valua- 

 ble crops, as sometimes happens, sink into disrepute, there is no 

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