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sidered by competitors the best, giving an opportunity to all to 

 compare side by side the several ploughs, and the work done by 

 each. And after making a careful examination, impartially, 

 any farmer may determine pretty correctly which plough is best 

 constructed to turn the furrows upon his farm. This opportuni- 

 ty if properly improved and applied is of great service to the 

 practical farmer — inasmuch as good ploughing is necessary to 

 secure a good crop. The Committee are confident, from the 

 interest taken in this part of our show, that it is no longer con- 

 sidered a boyish play. 



But that it is viewed in its true light, a means of information 

 which may be, and which is reduced to practice. 



The lot of land selected by the committee of arrangements, is 

 of a thin, sandy loam, has been pastured for many years with sheep, 

 and very little vegetable matter remained upon the surface of the 

 sward, of course all kinds of ploughs run free from clogging. In 

 the opinion of the committee, upon pasture ground of this descrip- 

 tion, if the coulter to the plough is sharp, very little is gained by 

 a cutter, although the same plough upon stiff soil, thickly coated 

 with grass, would not make good work without it. 



The Committee here w^ould remark that they do not consider 

 the lot ploughed a fair sample of the ground usually broken up 

 in the county, and would recommend to all interested to consi- 

 der that ploughs may make good work here which would not 

 go at all in such ground as is broken up upon most farms. We 

 feel justified in making these remarks from actual observation at 

 the last ploughing match. 



Ten lands of thirty-two rods each, were stricken out, all of 

 which were taken up by the competitors as follows, viz : 



Lot No. 1. By Samuel Northend, Teamster, and Wm. Wil- 

 liams, Ploughman, ploughed thirty furrows in fifty-one minutes. 



Lot No. 2. By Benjamin Savory, Teamster, and Wm. Brad- 

 ley, Ploughman, ploughed 28 furrows in forty-three minutes. 



Lot No. 3. By Silas Moulton, Teamster, and Joseph Good- 

 ridge, Ploughman, ploughed 31 furrows in fifty minutes. 



Lot No. 4. Nathan Hurd, Teamster, and Moses Pettengill, 

 Ploughman, 29 furrows in forty-eight minutes. 



