ON PLOUGHING WITH DOUBLE TEAMS. 73 



ON PLOUGHING WITH DOUBLE TEAMS. 



The Committee on ploughing with double teams, present Jacob 

 Brown, Thomas E. Payson, Wilham Johnson Jr., Tristram Little, 

 and Horace Ware, Jr., Report : 



That sixteen entries were made, by the following persons : — Fran- 

 cis Dodge, Dinvers. Richard S. Jacques, Newbury. Nath'l 

 Felton, Danvers. Orin Putnam, Danvers. Richard Dodge, Wen- 

 ham. Joseph Horton, Ipswich. James Marsh, Danvers. Joseph 

 Kittredge, Andover. B. W. Crowninshield, Topsfield. William 

 Sutton, Salem. John Newhall, Lynn. Daniel Roberts, Lynn. 

 John Washburn, Lynn. Elias Clough, Lynn. Moses H. Poor, 

 West Newbury, and Ira Worcester, Ipswich. 



The time occupied by the different teams in performing the work, 

 varied from twenty-five to forty minutes. With one or two excep- 

 tions, the work was remarkably well done. In fact, the Committee 

 believe that at no previous exhibition, have there been so many 

 teams, all doing their work so well, and so nearly alike. This being 

 the case, it was a very hard task to award four premiums to the 

 proper persons. If there had been three times the number of pre- 

 miums, the Committee would have taken great pleasure in awarding 

 them all, for there was at least that number of deserving competi- 

 tors. The lands of some of the competitors were very bad to plough, 

 and plough well. Particularly was this the case on the low part of 

 the land, the nature of the ground making it necessary to plough too 

 deep or too shallow, and thus very much retarding or destroying the 

 work. The Committee would venture to recommend, that a larger 

 number of premiums be offered for ploughing with double teams. 

 It is the team generally used for ploughing grass land in this County, 

 and there are usually quite as many entries as can be well acommo- 

 dated on the ground selected for ploughing. The Committee found 

 it exceedingly difficult to satisfy their own minds, as to whom the 

 premiums should be given, but after a great deal of examination and 

 consultation they have awarded the premiums as follows : 



To Moses H. Poor, of West Newbury, the first premium of $10 

 To Richard Dodge, of Wenham, the second premium of 8 



To John Washburn, of Lynn, the third premium of 6 



To Ira Worcester, of Ipswich, the fourth premium of 4 



For the Committee, 



JACOB BROWN, Chairman. 

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