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liams, J. Struthers, I. Newton, and others. 

 The attention of the committee was also 

 called to a set of harness, mounted with 

 Beverly's patent Pincer buckle, a neat and 

 apparently g-ood invention. 



A basket of very superior Mercer pota- 

 toes, at least equal to any on the o-round, 

 were exhibited by Bernard Carr, of King- 

 sessing, on the second day, but too late for 

 competition. 



Algernon S. Roberts, 



Jesse George, 



James Thornton, 



PAuii Jones, 



Henry Dull. 

 Eisjng-Sun, Oct. 37th, 1844. 



REPORT ON BUTTER. 



The committee on butter respectfully re- 

 port, that they have carefully examined the 

 samples offered for competition; and that 

 they award the first premium, of a silver 

 butter knife, valued at $5, to William 

 Foulke, for his fine and superior butter. 



To David VVhitall, they award the second 

 premium, of a silver knife, valued at $3. 



The committee report that the sample of 

 butter sent by Mr. Physick, arrived too late 

 for competition, the premiums having been 

 awarded. His butter they consider so very 

 fine, that they award an honorary premium 

 of $3 to the dairy maid. 



George Blight, 

 On behalf of the committee. 

 Rising-Sun, Oct. 17th, 1844. 



TRIAL OF PLOUGHS. 



This interesting affair came off by ap- 

 pointment, on the third day of the Exhibi- 

 tion. The weather proved very unfavour- 

 able, it having rained the whole of tiie fore- 

 noon, yet this could not damp the ardor of 

 the competitors, nor abate the interest of 

 the spectators, who had assembled in spite 

 of wind and weather, to witness the trial. 

 Two of the judges, owing no doubt to the 

 state of the weather, were absent, , which 

 induced the chairman of the committee of 

 Superintendence, to suggest a postponement 

 of the match, but the owners of the ploughs, 

 and the ambitious ploughmen, who had been 

 in waiting two days, insisted upon e.xhibiting 

 their respective merits at once, upon the day 

 set apart for the occasion; whereupon the 

 two vacancies in the committee of judges, 

 were then filled from the gentlemen pre- 

 sent, by the appointment of Mr. David 

 Whitall and Mr. Edwin Moore. The com- 

 mittee then stood-^Aaron Johnson, of Dela- 

 ware county; John Hunter, Blockley, Phila- 

 delphia county; Lewis R. VVillard, Mont- 

 gomery county; David Whitall, Gloucester 



county. New Jersey; and Edwin Moore, of 

 Montgomery county. Pa. 



The field allotted for the trial — generously 

 offered for the occasion by Miss Smith — was 

 an old sod which, had it not been for the 

 rain of the previous night, its condition 

 would have been stiff and stubborn, the soil 

 being a clay loam. The ground was laid 

 off and staked in equal portions of less than 

 a quarter of an acre; the ploughmen draw- 

 ing lots for choice of lands, which resulted 

 as follows : 



No. 1. The Garret plough— John Earl, 

 ploughman. 



No. 2. D. O. Prouty's Flat Furrow plough 

 — .Tohn Newlove, ploughman. 



No. 3. Pavvling's plough — James Bell, 

 ploughman. 



No. 4. Dickinson's plough — Justus Donat, 

 ploughman. 



No. 5. Mahlon Smith's plough— Crosdale 

 Warner, ploughman. 



No. 6. Moore's, Luzerne county — E. D. 

 Cartwright, ploughman. 



No. 7. D. O. Prouty's Centre Draught 

 plough — Wm. Banks, ploughman. 



No. 8. William Beach's — John Young, 

 ploughman. 



No. 9. John Struthers' Scotch Iron plough 

 — Hugh Young, ploughman. 



These nine ploughs, when arranged on 

 their respective lands, ready for the word to 

 start, was truly an interesting sight. Before 

 starting, the judges admonished the plough- 

 men not to hurry, though good time would 

 be looked for. They then started, cutting 

 a furrow not less than six inches deep, nor 

 loss than 12 inches broad. The excellence 

 of the work in general, was the theme of 

 every spectator. The oldest and most ex- 

 perienced on the ground, declared they had 

 never seen before such ploughmen and such 

 work, and thanked their stars they had not 

 to decide who was the best. The judges, 

 it is true, had a difficult task, but they 

 brought to bear upon it great experience, 

 unquestioned disinterestedness and impar- 

 tiality. 



RFPORT. 



The committee on ploughs and ploughing, 

 respectfully report, that they attended 1o the 

 duty assigned them, and after the most par- 

 ticular attention to the implements and mi- 

 nute examination of the work, award as 

 follows: 



To D. O. Prouty, of Philadelphia, the first 

 premium of SlO, for his Flat Furrow Centre- 

 draught plough. 



To Mahlon Smith, of Bucks county, the 

 second premium of $.5, for his plough, known 

 by the name of " Smith's Plough." 



