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ground presents somewhat the appearance of fallow ploughing. 

 It appears especially adapted to our mode of cultivation, as it 

 disposes at once of the old sod, which is so apt to interfere 

 with the new crop. There can be no possible view of its op- 

 eration, which will render its work less valuable than that of 

 the common breaking-up plough ; and your committee feel 

 confident that a more extended acquaintance with this instru- 

 ment, will cause its extensive use upon our tough-sodded grass 

 fields. Fallow ploughing, the most common use of the plough, 

 cannot be conveniently performed at a cattle-show. Whether 

 the deep ploughing, so much in practice in England at the 

 present day, extends its benefits to grass crops as well as roots 

 and grain, we are not informed. 



For the Committee, 



JAMES M. ROBBINS. 



Fat Cattle. 

 Four fat oxen, six years old, and not of the largest size, were 

 entered for premium, by William Enslin and John Ayres, of 

 Roxbury, the heaviest pair weighing 4,300 pounds. All were 

 well fatted animals, and spoke well of their owners, and very 

 emphatically of the good quality of their pastures, as grass had 

 been their only feed since June, and as one pair of them had 

 drawn in, the most of 150 tons of hay in the haying season. 

 Had there been given the committee the weight of each ox at 

 the time he was turned to pasture in June, and the weight of 

 each at the time of the exhibition, they would have been 

 better able to form a correct judgment. Without this aid, in 

 case of several competitors for a premium, it might be difiicult 

 for a committee to arrive at a conclusion satisfactory to them- 

 selves. But there appeared to be no competition in this case, 

 and having understood that the cattle were only in good work- 

 ing order at the time they were unyoked for the pasture, and 

 that they all had made a gain unusually remunerative, your 

 committee awarded to Messrs. Enslin and Ayres the premiums. 

 LEMUEL HUMPHREY, Chairman. 



