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C. A. Beckford, Salem, best tro of Bantams, first premium, 

 $2. E. R. Perkins, second premium, |1. 



E. E,. Perkins, first and second premiums on Hamburgs, $3. 



E. R. Perkins, Plymouth Rocks, first premium, $2. D. B. 

 Wallace, second premium, $1. 



E. R. Perkins, Dominiques, first premium, $2. Ordway 

 Brothers, second premium, 11. 



E. R. Perkins, Leghorns, first premium, $2. Aaron Low, 

 second premium, $1. 



A. P. Lufkin, Black Spanish, first premium, $2. 



E. R. Perkins, Polish Fowls, first and second premiums, $3. 



D. B. Wallace, Games, first premium, $2. 



G-ratuities. 



Edwin F. Hoyt, coop of Houdans, $2. 



E. R. Perkins, Sultans, |2. 



Ordway Brothers, Bolton Gray fowls, $2. 



C. P. Barrett, Gloucester, coop of Pigeons, $1. 



Committee — John Swinerton, Charles C. Blunt, James Flint. 



PLOUGHING— WITH DOUBLE TEAMS. 



The Committee on Ploughing with Double Teams report that 

 only three teams were entered for premiums : R. S. Bray and 

 E. H. Little of Newbury, Joseph Horton of Ipswich, and Sam- 

 uel James of Gloucester. 



The land ploughed was well adapted to test the skill of the 

 ploughmen. Stones would occasionally break the furrows and 

 thus prevent that uniformity, which good ploughmen always 

 strive to show and which is considered by the inexperienced 

 essential to good ploughing. With only three teams, your 



