ON PLOUGHING. 27 



ON PLOUGHING WITH HORSE TEAMS. 

 The Committee on Ploughing with Horse Teams (present — Thos. 

 E. Payson, Soloman Low, Gideon R. Lucy, Paul D. Patch and Os- 

 good Loring) would say, that they have never before seen the Plough- 

 ing with Horses so well done as at this ploughing match. Eight 

 teams were entered for premium, and the work was well done by all. 

 Upon a careful examination of the work they have awarded, 

 To John Dow, of Ipswich, 1st premium, $8. 



To John Marland, of Andover, 2d premium, 6. 

 To John Grout of Danvers, 8d premium, 4. 

 To Josiah Crosby of Andover, 4th premium, 2. 

 For the Committee, 



THOMAS E. PAYSON. 

 Xynn, September 29th, 1847. 



ON SUB-SOIL PLOUGHING. 



The appointment of a committee, by the Trustees, "on subsoil 

 ploughing and its effects" clearly indicates on their part, a desire to ac- 

 quire information on this interesting subject, rather than a confidence 

 i"n their ability to communicate it. 



Perhaps there is no branch of agricultural labor, about which so 

 little is experimentally known among us. Our oldest experts have 

 scarcely had^yg years experience ; — and very few, more than one or 

 two years. 



We could readily select from English publications what is there 

 said in relation to sub-soil ploughing, where it seems to be deemed al- 

 most indispensable to improved cultivation ; but this is not the kind 

 of information sought in our Reports. We want the actual results 

 on our own soil. We want our practical farmers, so far to try the 

 experiments themselves, as to determine whether or not it will be for 

 their advantage to continue the use of this instrument. 



This has not yet been done by the farmers of Essex. Their subsoil 

 ploughs, like their go-to-meeting clothes, are kept for special occa- 

 sions. They are not yet naturalized. They have not yet secured 



