Report of the Judges. 



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It will be understood that the "hardest soil" of the table is 

 the southern or upper end of the lot, while the "loosest soil" is 

 the northern or lower end of the lot. The " hardest soil" is the 

 gravelly portion, the "loosest soil" is the tenacious portion. 



The following table is deduced from the preceding, and shows 

 the average number of pounds required to draw the plow through 

 each yard of the whole furrow: 



These numbers are reduced to the power required for each 

 cubic foot of earth by dividing the actual area of a cross section 

 in inches, and multiplying by 144 square inches, which gives the 



following table: 



On comparing these two tables it will be seen that they give 

 dilibrent results. The mean averaoe result of all the trials as 



