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Committee were able to watch closely the management of each 

 and how the skill of the ploughman was promptly exerted to 

 counteract the etfect of obstructing stones and to keep straight 

 and even his furrows. 



If the Committee were disposed to look for faultiness, it 

 would be found, perhaps, in the speed with which each teamster 

 attempted to outdrive his competitors. We are aware that a 

 team moving rapidly, with no obstructions to interrupt, will 

 throw over the furrows more evenly than one going slowly. 

 But your Committee think, that had each team moved at a 

 more natural gait, the furrows would have shown a less broken 

 surface when stones were struck, and the whole work would 

 have appeared quite as well. And the well trained, patient oxen, 

 always willing to exert their strength at the word of their 

 master, would not have shown unmistakable proof that they 

 had l)een driven at an unnatural speed. As is generally done, 

 your Committee reminded these competitors that the premiums 

 would be given for the best work — not for that done most 

 quickly. We hope to see an improvement in this respect in 

 the future. 



The work done Ijy Mr. Horton's team was very good, enough 

 so to have merited the first premium ; but' the furrows were 

 laid a little more straight and uniform by Bray and Little's 

 team, on a lot which the Committee judged to be the most 

 difficult of the three to plough well. 



The Committee unanimously award to R. S. Bray and E. H. 

 Little of Newbury, with Prouty and Mears Eagle Plough, No. 

 20, the first premium of $12 with diploma. 



To Joseph Horton of Ipswich, with Ruggles and Nourse 

 Eagle, No. 20, the second premium of $10. 



To Samuel James of Gloucester, with Hussey Plough, No. 3, 

 tlie third premium of <|9. 



Committee — John Keely, Philip Jones, Wm. B. Morgan, 

 James T. Carleton, Sidney J. Newman. 



