ON FARMS. 75 



ON PLOUGHING WITH HORSE TEAMS. 



The Committee on ploughing with Horse Teams, Report : 

 That five teams were entered for premium, four of which appeared 

 upon the ground. Three of them performed their work very finely, 

 and it was with some diflficulty that the Committee could decide to 

 whom the premiums should be awarded. But after careful exami- 

 nation, they awarded the premiums as follows, viz. : 



To William G. Brown, of Ipswich, the first premium of $8 00 

 To John G. Walcott, of Danvers, the second premium of 6 00 

 To John Dorr, of Ipswich, the third premium of 4 00 



John Grout, of Danvers, appeared upon the field with one horse, 

 of large size. He commenced his work very well, but probably ow- 

 ing to the encroachments of the spectators, caused by inefficiency of 

 Tolice, he became unmanageable, and was obliged to be taken from 

 the field. 



For the Committee, 



J. KITTREDGE. 



ON FARMS. 



The Committee on Farms, (present T E. Payson, Samuel C. 

 Pitman, Lewis Allen, and Jonas Holt,) Report : 



That two farms were entered for premium, lying at two extremes 

 of the County, — one in Methuen, the other in Lynn, near the line of 

 Saugus. But they were not so far remote from each other in place, 

 as they were in the character of their soil, and in their whole general 

 appearance. The one in Methuen, entered by Leverett Bradley? 

 is upon the Merrimack, and stretches along nearly a mile upon the 

 bank of the river. The soil is inclining to sand. Probably there is 

 not a rock upen the whole of it too large to be turned ont by the 

 plough. The accompanying statement of Mr. Bradley shows what 

 it was a few years ago, and what it now is. Probably no farm in the 

 County was more attractive in its appearance than was this, when 

 your Committee visited it in July. About seventy acres of grass in 

 one body, which, in the opinion of the Committee, would produce 

 two tons of hay per acre, on the average, and fifty acres of rye, at 

 that time ready for the harvest, adjoining, which could all be seen 

 distinctly from Mr. Bradley's house, without a tree, a shrub, or a 



