ESSEX SOCIETY. 27 



Josiah Crosby^ s Statement. 



I offer for premium, a cow raised upon my farm. She is 

 nine years old, and is about three-quarters of Ayrshire blood. 

 She calved in June last, and was milked up to the time of 

 calving, without any other feed than hay. She has had no 

 kind of grain for the last year. During the past summer she 

 has been kept in a fair pasture, and during the severe drought 

 was fed with corn-stalks. We measured her milk for one 

 week, which averaged 16| quarts per day, and on the follow- 

 ing week she made 8^ lbs. of butter. 



JosiAH Crosby. 



North Andover, Sept. 29, 1852. 



Ploughing with Single Teams. 



The committee on ploughing with single teams offer the 

 following report : 



There were eleven teams entered ; but nine only appeared 

 upon the field. The land was somewhat uneven in its sur- 

 face, and it was more difficult to determine the comparative 

 merits of the different teams, than it would have been upon a 

 level surface. 



The committee, after making all due allowance for the dif- 

 ference in the lands, award the first premium, of seven dollars, 

 to Nathan Tapley, of Dan vers, work done by Doe's plough, of 

 Concord, N. H., in thirty-six minutes, with twenty furrows. 



This plough was somewhat different in its construction, 

 from any upon the field, and had a rolling cutter attached to 

 it. The committee, while they would be proud of the world- 

 wide fame which the ploughs of our own State have acquired, 

 are glad to see a plough from New Hampshire which they 

 think is in some respects superior to any manufactured in this 

 State. If, upon further acquaintance, this plough sustains the 

 favorable impression it has made to-day, we think that it will 

 soon find its way into use among us. 



The second premium, of six dollars, to John P. Foster, of 

 Andover, work done by Ruggles, Nourse & Co.'s Eagle plough. 

 No. 73^, twenty-three furrows, in forty-five minutes. 



