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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



the ilay of Exhibition. As four premiums are 

 ofllpred on this siilijecf, it is hoped that the num- 

 ber of competitors will be large. The work 

 must be done by one pair of oxen, without a 

 driver. 



6. The trial of working oxen will follow 

 imnjediafely after the ploughing, in such man- 

 ni^r as the Committee shall direct. Five pre- 

 minrasare offered on this subject, amounting to 

 seventy dollars. 



7. if c<jmpelitors for any of the Society's 

 premiums shall be discovered to have used any 

 disingenuous measures, by which the objects of 

 the Society may h.-tve been defeated, the pre- 

 mium that may have been awarded, shall be 

 witliholdi'n at the discretion of the Tru'lees, 



8. All statements of claimants for premiums, 

 not to be awarded on the day of Exhil)ition, but 

 in the present year, must be handed to the Sec- 

 retary previous to the 1st of December next. 



9. At 2 o'clock, the memliers of the Society 

 will dine together. A procession will bo formed 

 of those having tickets lor the dinner, which 

 will be obtained of Cyrus Cummins, by mem- 



trees front of the Meeting House to the place 

 nf beginninsr, — vvilhin which limits no Booth or 

 Tent can be erected, or other obstruction (ex- 

 cept that of hecessary public travel) will be 

 permitted, to the business of the day. 



3. The avenue between the ranges of the 

 Pens is intended exclusively for the Trustees, 

 Judges and Members of the Society; anil no 

 person will enter the same but by permission of 

 one of the Committee of Arrangements, or a 

 Marshal. 



4. During the trial and examination of Work- 

 ing Oxen, no persons except the Judges, Mar- 

 shals and Committee of Arrangements will be 

 permitted to enter or pass within the lines 

 which will be defined by a furrow on each side 

 of the travelled path, leading from Front-Street 

 to the road passing over the Common by the 

 School House ; nor must they follow after the 

 teams, as they are driven up and down said path. 



6. The limits of the Flouirhing Match are 



defined by extended furrows, cirr.umscribing the ^ _ 



lots to be ploughed. Within these ''mi'^ allurcultiire creates,- War destroys. The foraTerU a b^^ 



VENF.RATE THE PLOUGH ! 



Ye sons offreertom, venerate the Plough ! 



In ancient times the sacred plough employed 



The sage and awful Fathors of jMankind ; — 



And some, with whom compared your puny tribes 



Are but the insects of a summer's day — 



W ho poised the scale of empire — (juelled the storms 



Of civil discord — then with rfady baud. 



Disdaining little delicacies, seized 



The Plough, and greatly independent lived ! 



Thomson — adaplLd to tlie occasion. 



The following official notice of a very important part 

 the Agricultural Exhibition at Brighton will, we hope, 

 attract the attention of every friend to agricultural im- 

 provement. We should be happy to find that the pro- 

 posed trial of skill in the art which is the source of all 

 other arts, and the main spiiug of civilized society, has 

 excited that emulation, and called forth that ingenuity 

 which are the heralds of excellence. It is, in the eye 

 of reason, more honourable to be first in the field of 

 agriculture, than foremost in the field of battle. A" 



bers only, at 75 cents each. 



10. At half past three o'clock, there will be ing M itrh, are forbidden to en>er or pass. 1 he 

 a Meeting of the Society, at the Meeting ilouse, ! ends of the field between the furrows being re- 

 wbrn the report of the several committees will: served for the occupation of Memoers of the 

 be read, and the usual business of the Annual Society, all other personsare prohibited passing 

 Meetin- trans.icled. At this time the R,.p„rt of thereon without the permission of a Marshal.— 



persons but the Marshals, Jud-es Committee of|^i„,, «,„;„, _the latter a malignant D^mon. The 

 Arrangements and those enga-cd in the 1 longh- j pj^,^^,^ .^ ^^^ implement of such consequence in hu^ 



bandry ihat it is often used as synonymous with Agri- 

 culture itself. To " venerate the P/ougA," is tovent- 



tbe Committee appointed to fix on a permanent 



No regard is to be had to the time in which any 



place of Exhibition, will be made to the Society. I plou2:hing should be done, if done within 30 

 ■ minutes. The goodness of the work, and not 



the time in which it is done, being the object 

 of the premiums. 



6. Animals must be in the Pens before 9 o'- 

 clock, A. M. and must not be removed until 3 



11. The following gentlemen have been ap- 

 pointed Slarshals on this occasion, viz: 

 CoL. Jesse Putnam, 

 Dr. R. A. Meriam, 

 Ma,i. David Emerv, 

 Mr. William Hubbard, 

 Mr. Ezra Batcheldek, 

 Capt. Gilbert Taplev. 



Bi/ order of the Committee of .Arrangements. 



JOHN W. PROCTOR, Sec'ry. 

 Topsfidd, Sept. 18, 1824. 



WORCESTER CATTLE SHOW. 



by permission of the Committee of Arrange- 

 ments. 



7. Each Committee will make and publish 

 Hides and Bcs'dations to be observed at the Cattle ^"<^^ "'h*''' {"^"'es as they may find necessary in 

 Sho-j.\ Fahibition of Manufactures, and Plough- discharge of the trust a.«signed them, and all 

 {ng Match, at Worcester, on Wednesday, the [>Prsons concerned will conform thereto. Vio- 

 iotk of October 1821. | lations of all Rules will be rigorously prosccut- 



• r , , , 1 f"''' nccordin? to the provisions of law 



1. The preservation ol good order and an 



enlorccment of the Rules and Regulations of 

 the Trustees, and of the Committee of Arrange- 

 ments, heretofore published are confi.led to ihe i business. The Society will move in proces-i 

 especial charge of the Marshals who have been [,;^„^ precisely at 11 o'clock, to the South M 



rate Agriculture. — [Ed. N. E. Farmer. 



PLOUGHING MATCH AT BRIGHTON. 

 The Committee of Arrangements for the Cat- 

 Ti E Show at Brighton, have lieen furnished with 

 a piece of ground for the Ploughing Match, by 

 Mr John Herrick. It is south of his h"use, on 

 the road leading from Cambridge to Bngliton 

 meeting bouse, and nearly opposite the land of 

 Mr Francis Winship, used tor that purjiose last 

 o'clock, P. M. without the permission of a Mar- 1 year. If will be laid out by a surveyor, in ten 

 shal. All Manufactured Articles, curious fm- ] lots of one quarter of an acre each, to be ploiigh- 

 plements of Husbandry, and rare Products of ed with two yoke of oxen ; and ten lots ol one 

 the Field will be exhibited in the Rooms appro- j eighth of an acre each, to be ploughed by one 

 priated to that purpose, from 9 o'clock, A. M. ; yoke of oxen. The ground is level, anil will 

 until 5 o'clock, P. M. unless sooner removed afford a fine margin for spectators, the soil equal 



in quality, free from stones, well swarded on a 

 friable mould. 



The following is an extract from the premium 

 list, published in January last, and distributed 

 through the state. 



" On the second day of the Cattle Show, viz. 

 Thursday the 21st day of October, premiums 

 will be given to the owners and ploughmen of 



8. The Irustees will be in session at S/oc/;- ,hree ploughs drawn by two yoke of oxen, and 

 well s Inn, at 8 o'clock, A. M. for the admission ! to the owners and ploughmen of three ploughs 

 of Members and the transaction of all necessa- 1 drawn by one yoke of oxen, which shall be ad- 



appointed liy the Trustees, and will be under 

 oath, agreeably to law, to the faithful discharge 

 of their dulv. \ 



2. The limits of the Cattle Show and Trial 

 of Working Oxen are delincd by a line on the 

 south side of the South Meeting House, extend- 

 ed easterly from the east side of the great post 

 road opposite to the north east corner of the 

 front yard fence of Mr. Benjamin Butman, to 

 the south west angle of the burying yard wall ; 

 thence easterly, and by the road on the south 

 side of the School-House ; and from said road, 

 including the whole of the open ground between 

 the Baptist Meeting House and the I'ound to 

 Front-Slreet ; thence by the south side of Front 

 Street to the Guide-Post at the westerly end ; 

 thence westerly crossing to the first elm tree 

 isoulh of the Famj) ; thence by the range of 



eet- 



ing-llouse, where Prayers will bo offered and 

 an Address delivered. The names of geitle- 

 men appointed Judges, and other arrangen'enls 

 will then be announced. 



9. The Premiums will be awarded in tlie 

 Meeting House, at 5 o'clock, P. M. 



0:5= A public Dinner ivill be provided at Cy- 

 rus Stockwell's Inn. Tickets, at 75 cents each, 

 will he delivered at his bar. 



By order of the Committee of the Worcester -Igri- 

 cultural Society. 

 Theopiiilus Wheeler, Willlam Stfdman, 

 Thomas Chamberlain, Nathan Howe, Join W. 

 Lincoln, Jonas L. Siblev, Isaac Southgaie, Si- 

 las Brooks, John W. I^Iubbard, 



Committee of Arrangemcnli. 

 Worcester, Sept. 16, 1824. 



judged by a competent Committee, to have per- 

 Ibrmed tlie best xcork n'ilh least expense of labour, 

 not exceeding half an acre to each plough. — 

 Notice will be given in the publick papers at 

 least six weeks before said day (if ground can 

 be obtained) that a piece of ground has been 

 provided for twenty ploughs, ten double and ten 

 single teams, and that entries may be made of 

 the names of the competitors, until the morning 

 of the 21st. Preference will be given to those 

 who enter first ; but if on calling the list pre- 

 cisely at the hour appointed, those first named 

 do not appear, tb? next in order will be prefei-t 

 red. 'I'bere will he two Committees of three 

 persons each, one to be judges of the ploughing 

 bv dou'de teams, the other of the [iloughui!; by 

 single teams, Iht^ latter to have assigned them a 

 part of the field distant from that of the double 

 teams. 



