170 HAMPSHIRE, FRANKLIN, AND 



Theodore Bartlett, Northampton, - - - $5 00 



H. K. Starkweather, " - - - 4 00 



Alfred H. Cook, Hadley, - - - - 3 00 



Elisha Strong, Northampton, - - - 2 00 



Enos Clark, " . . . . i OO 



Three single ox teams ploughed in the contest, and one was 

 excluded for not ploughing the depth required. The committee 

 award on ox teams, 



William P. Dickinson, Hadley, - - - |8 00 



William Clark, Jr., Northampton, - - - 6 00 



Two other teams appeared and ploughed, one a double team, 

 and the other a single pair of oxen, both having the double 

 share ploughs. The experiment being new, involved the 

 question of the right of these ploughs to compete for premium 

 with the other ploughs, a question which the committee felt 

 unwilling to decide. They would remark, however, that the 

 work was very satisfactorily done, and they therefore recom- 

 mend a gratuity of $5 each, to 



Moses Stebbins, of South Deerfield, and 

 Samuel 1j. Parsons of Northampton. 



There were a number of entries for ploughing without hold- 

 ers. There not being a sufficient number of lots provided for 

 the purpose, that part of the trial was dispensed with. 



JOSEPH SMITH, Chairman. 



Stock. 



Had the duties of your committee devolved on them at an 

 earlier period of our agricultural history, when there was but a 

 slender acquaintance with the different kinds of stock, when 

 the importation of foreign breeds was of rare occurrence, and 

 specimens were in few hands, it might have been desirable, 

 with a view to kindle enterprise, and promote their more fre- 

 quent introduction, to have described their several character- 

 istics, to have pointed out their respective merits, to have speci- 



