ESSEX SOCIETY. 



ESSEX AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



From the Reports of the Committees of this Society, and the 

 statements accompanying the same, the following extracts 

 are made. 



Ploughing with Double Teams. 



There were thirteen competitors [at the Cattle Show and 

 Fair, September 24th,] to whom lots of one quarter of an 

 acre each were assigned by lot, to be ploughed not less than 

 seven inches deep. The time, in which the work was done, 

 varied from thirty -five to forty-four minutes. Notwithstanding 

 these trials have been so often repeated, they are still received 

 with increasing interest, and every succeeding year brings to 

 notice some valuable improvements. The committee are 

 strongly impressed with the superior value of those ploughs 

 which lay the furrow-slice flat and even, especially in the culti- 

 vation of grass. Care should be taken by the ploughman that 

 he does not cut a wider furrow than the plough was intended 

 to cut, and then it will be entirely smooth in appearance, 

 and we know of none superior for this purpose to those manu- 

 factured by Ruggles, Nourse & Mason. 



For the committee, 



W. SUTTON. 



Ploughing with Single Teams. 



From these experiments, we learn that an acre of land may 

 be ploughed by a single pair of cattle and one man in four 

 hours, and probably nearly two acres in a single day. When 

 we take into view the expense of operating a team of this de- 

 scription, compared with those usually employed in this busi- 

 ness, it will be quite well for our farmers to consider whether 

 most of their work cannot be done with one pair of cattle, and 

 if two pair are to be used, would it not be better to cut the first 



