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will bear the same number. The number of all the stakes will face inward toward 

 the lot which they designate. The stakes will be rounded at one end and sharp- 

 ened at the other. 



§ 3. Eight poles will be provided, each eight feet long, they will be painted 

 white downward two feet below the top, a black ring six inches Avide will be painted 

 in the middle of the whole field. Two swivel hooks. 



Two hooks with their ends bent on opposite sides of the shank. 



Four gauges to show the breadth of the furrow. One for ascertaining its depth. 

 One dynamometer. One platform scale of sufficient size for weighing plows. One 

 tape line 200 feet long. One tape line eight feet long for each member of the des- 

 criptive committee. A two-foot carpenter's square. A bevel rule. A spirit level, 

 and a blank book and pencil for each judge. 



§ 4. They will procure a sufficient number of active and faithful policemen to 

 keep all intruders from the plow ground, and to preserve order at the trial. A 

 tent sufficiently large to shelter all the judges. A team for the special dynamome- 

 ter trials, and a lumber wagon. 



Duties of Competitors. 



§ 1. Each competitor will furnish his own team and plowman. In the special 

 dynamometer trials the team to be furnished by the Society. 



§ 2. They will provide themselves with wrenches and other tools for taking the 

 plows apart when necessary. 



§ 3. The plots will be plowed in the order of their numbers. All competitors 

 not ready for work when called on may be ruled out by the judges. 



Duties of Judges. 



§ 1. The chairman of the Board of Judges will, on the first day of the trial, 

 distribute the plots of ground by lot among the competitors. 



§ 2. The judges will commence operations each morning at eight o'clock, 

 lunch at half past twelve o'clock, and finish at half past five o'clock. They are 

 particularly requested to look over their minutes every evening, and if their notes 

 are imperfect to remedy the deficiency as early as possible. 



§ 3. Before entering upon his duties, each judge shall subscribe a written 

 declaration that he is not directly or indirectly interested in the sale of any plow. 



§ 4. The following will be examined as the most important points of the plow : 



1. Pulverizing power. 



2. Non-liability to choke in stubble. 



3. Lightness of draught, considered in connection with pulverizing power. 



4. Ease of holding. 



5. Durability. 



6. Cheapness. 



7. Excellence of mechanical work. 



8. Excellence of material. 



9. Thorough inversion and burial of weeds. 



10. Even distribution of wear. 



11. Regularity or trueness of turning and carrying the furrow slice on sod. 

 § 5. Lightness of draught alone, except in sandy lands, will not be esteemed a 



great merit. The plow which pulverizes the soil most, with the least draft, will 

 have the preference. 



§ 6. The Society desire to encourage an increased depth of plowing in the State. 

 Those plows, therefore, that arc able to turn a furrow in a satisfactory manner. 



