REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 19 



PLOWING MATCH. 



OX TEAMS. 

 Your Committee make the following report : — 



Number of teams entered, 3. 



N. B. Reed, ist premium, ^5 00 



Alden Derby, 2d prem., 4 00 



Cyrus Kilburn, 3d prem., 3 00 



Your Committee feel it their duty to make mention of Cyrus 

 Kilburn of Lunenburg, 80 years old, who held his own plow, 

 and did his work in a manner that would do credit to any young 

 farmer. 



EDWARD BACON, Chairman. 



PLOWING WITH HORSE TEAMS. 



The trial took place on the farm of Lawrin Pratt, which is 

 but a few rods from the fair grounds. The land was in excellent 

 condition, being level, free from stones and having a sod firm 

 enough to admit of turning a good furrow. There was not so 

 much interest taken in this part of the fair as your committee 

 had hoped to see. There were only four entries and but three 

 teams plowed. Last winter, at the annual meeting of the trustees 

 there was considerable discussion in regard to the kind of plows 

 to be used, some claiming that the swivel and landside should 

 not compete in the same class, particularly the double landside, 

 but it was finally decided that competitors might use any plow 

 they pleased and the premiums awarded to the best work, re- 

 gardless of the kind of plow used. The first land was plowed 

 by G. W. Page of Leominster, with an I. X. L. swivel plow, the 

 second by Geo. Mason, Jr., of Princeton, with a Centennial 

 swivel No. 3, and the third by E. A. Goodrich with a double 

 landside, which does its work in a peculiar manner, turning first 



