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The conditions on whicli the premiums to be awarded depended 

 were — For the best plowed lots performed within an hour without re- 

 gard to quantity. Messrs Nicholas Wyckoff, James Bathgate, and 

 Thomas Bell were appoinled judges. On the signal being given, the 

 several plow teams started off at once, and a more spirited and inter- 

 esting scene than that which followed has seldom, if ever, been wit- 

 nessed by your committee. 



Messrs. Clark and Brewster finished their allotments in thirteen mi- 

 nutes, and the others came in within the hour prescribed. 



SPADING MATCH. 



An area of two hundred square feet was set ofTby lot to each com- 

 petitor. In this, as in the plowing match, the qualiiy of the work 

 performed was to be the criterion. Judges were duly appointed, and 

 the spading match was completed in twenty-five minutes. The 

 Messrs. Lodge, falher and sons, it will be subsequently seen, bore 

 away the prizes. Col. Clark, chairman of your committee, person- 

 ally tested by the dynamometer the draughts of the several plows 

 which had been used in tlic match. [Vide list of premiums, &:c. an- 

 nexed.] 



After the performance of the matches, appropriate addresses were 

 made on the field by Mr. Crane of Virginia, and by Mr. Meigs, secre- 

 tary of the Farmers' Club of the Institute. During the day nothing 

 occurred to mar the pleasure of the occasion. Like displays should 

 be encouraged throughout our land — they tend lo awaken a most no- 

 ble ambition and to extend knowledge of the ways and means of the 

 greatest art, that of agriculture. 



PREMIUMS. 



Plowing. 



1st. James Clark for best plowing, a silver cup, value eight dol- 

 lars. 



2d. John Brewster, of English Neighborhood, 5z7yer mecZaZ. 

 .'M. John Ilea, of Morrisania, diploma. 



Spading Match. 



Joseph Lodge, aged 45 years ; time 21 minutes, silver cup, value 

 eisht dollars. 



