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Essex, they indulge in the hope that the leisure will be improv- 

 ed in a laudable competition for the premiums of 1835, should the 

 society offer them as usual. 



Dean Robinson, Chairman. 



No. V. ON PLOUGHING— DOUBLE TEAMS. 



The Committee on Ploughing with Double Teams, consisting 

 of Hobart Clark, jMoses Newell, Nathan Pearson, Samuel Wal- 

 ton, and Jedediah H. Barker, Report : 



That correct ploughing is ilie first and great lesson to be taught 

 and impressed upon a farmer, and this consists in turning prop- 

 erly a straight furrow at a suitable and regular depth. 



That this lies at the bottom, and is the ground work of good 

 husbandry, much more so than farmers in general are apt to 

 imagine. 



There were eight teams entered for premium, and eight lots 

 of twenty-eight rods each. One team withdrew; the others 

 ploughed as follows, viz : 



Lot No. 2 Hector Coffin ploughed 32 furrows 51 minutes. 

 " " 3 Jared Kimball " 

 « « 4 John B. Savory " 

 " « 5 Daniel Moulton " 

 " " 6 Samuel Bradstreet *' 

 " " 7 Jesse Shelden " 



'' " 8 William Foster, 3d " 

 The Committee would observe that the work was in general 

 remarkably well done, several of the lots so nearly equal that 

 they found difficulty in awarding the premiums. 



The lots No. three and four, vvere ploughed remarkably quick 

 but not of sufficient depth, and the furrows considerably wider 

 than others and on the whole not as well turned. It is believed 

 the most of success was mainly owing to the structure of the 

 ploughs. 



Lot No. two, was well ploughed but much more time was la- 

 ken in doing it than any other one. 



