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your committee arc of opinion that taking into view its exten- 

 sive use, all the encouragement given by the Commonwealth 

 and individual citizens to our agricultural societies, has been 

 amply repaid by the success of the efforts for its improvement; 

 still perfection is not probably yet attained. 



Thirty years since, two yokes of oxen and a horse to lead 

 them, were considered necessary to turn over sward land, one 

 sturdy man well braced at an angle of 45 degrees, one to clear 

 the plough, and occasionally ride on the beam, one driver, with 

 ponderous goad and snapping lash, and the youngest son to 

 ride the leader, were considered indispensable to a pleasant 

 and successful prosecution of the work, while the whole estab- 

 lishment was often obliged to come to a full stop to replace 

 refractory furrows in the rear. 



We yesterday witnessed the pleasing results of the ingenuity 

 of our plough-makers, and the facility and ease with which one 

 man, or two men and pair, will execute more and better work 

 in a given time, than could be performed by double the amount 

 of strength, a few years since. 



Elisha Edwards, Chairman. 



HAMPSHIRE. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



Was the plough used by Adam ? " And the Lord God planted 

 a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he 

 had formed." — Gen. ii. 8. After planting, we find that " The 

 Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden 

 to dress it, and to keep it." — Gen. ii. 15. 



Let us, for a moment, contemplate the man, created by divine 

 wisdom for agricultural pursuits. In his physical nature, he 

 was a finished production of infinite skill. Intellectually, as a 

 perfect model, he must have stood at a height that none of his 

 descendants can hope to reach ; while, upon his moral nature, 

 no blighting stain had fallen. The lineaments of an endless 

 life were h s. 



For huch a man, the cultivation of the ground was deemed 

 by the Creator, a suitable employment. But we are not in- 



