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genious, then and there you will find the people industrious, 

 enterprising, virtuous, intelligent and thriving. 



It is true wisdom and policy then for a people, desirous of 

 promoting their highest good, to encourage the ploughman 

 and improve the plough. And our grateful thanks are due 

 to those wise and far-seeing minds who have, in past genera- 

 tions, and in our own times, sought to advance and improve 

 the art and science of agriculture by those public fairs and 

 trials of skill in the manufacture and use of the plough. 



Your committee congratulate the members of the Worcester 

 County Agricultural Society, on the solid good which has 

 grown out of their past efforts to elevate the calling of the 

 husbandman and improve the implements of his toil. 



This thirty-fifth anniversary of oiu- annual festival, in the 

 number and beauty of the ploughs, the excellence and thor- 

 oughness of the work of the several competitors, has not fallen 

 below any of the past anniversaries. 



The number of entries were twenty-five, and your commit- 

 tee, after a careful and impartial investigation, have awarded 

 the following 



Premiums. 



First premium to Cyrus Gale, of Northborough, Charles 

 P. Potter, ploughman ; Ruggles, Nourse, Mason & 

 Co.'s Eagle plough, No. 731 Oxen five years old ; 

 work done in 27 minutes, .... $10 00 



Second premium to George P. Stockwell, of Sutton, 

 himself ploughman ; Martin's Eagle plough, No. 50. 

 Oxen five years old ; work done in 48 minutes, . 9 00 



Third premium to Loren Carpenter, of Charlton, him- 

 self ploughman ; Ruggles, Nourse, Mason & Co.'s 

 Eagle plough, No. 73|. Oxen five years old ; work 

 done in 40 minutes, . . . . . 8 00 



Fourth premium to Silas Bailey, of Boylston, Nathan 

 B. Read ploughman ; Martin's Eagle plough. No. 

 50. Oxen four years old ; work done in 33 minutes, 7 00 



Fifth premium to T. J. Wheelock, of Grafton, himself 

 ploughman ; Ruggles, Nourse, Mason & Co.'s Eagle 

 plough, No. 731. Oxen six years old ; work done 

 in 49 minutes, . . . . . 6 00 



