46 WORCESTER SOCIETY. 



WORCESTER COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



In the return of the doings of this Society, its Corresponding 

 Secretary, John W. Lincoln, of Worcester, states, that " The 

 cattle show, exhibition of manufactures, and ploughing match, 

 was had on the 8th of October last, and was highly creditable 

 to the society. An increased interest appeared to be taken in it, 

 by the attendance of a much larger number of spectators than 

 has been witnessed at any previous year. An elegant, amusing and 

 instructive Address, was delivered to a large and attentive audi- 

 ence, by the Hon. Benjamin F. Thomas. In consequence of his 

 having declined to comply with the request of the trustees, 

 as to the publication of his Address, no other publication has 

 been made the present year by the society, except in the public 

 newspapers." 



From the premium list, reports of committees, and statements 

 accompanying the same, the following selections are made. 



Ploughing Match. 



In their remarks on this head, in the premium list, the trus- 

 tees say, "as they believe, that with one pair of well trained 

 oxen and a skilful ploughman, the work, for every useful pur- 

 pose, on a good soil, may be sufficiently performed, they have 

 thought proper to discontinue the premiums for ploughs with 

 two yokes of oxen, who do the work at great additional expense 

 of labor, and they therefore offer for the best work with one 

 yoke of oxen, driven by the ploughman. As the great object of 

 this part of the exhibition is to excite emulation in the construc- 

 tion and use of the most important instrument of agriculture, 

 the plough, the competitors in the ploughing match must not 

 only own their respective ploughs and oxen, but the jyloughs 

 must be those which have been used on their farms not less than 

 sixty days previous to the exhibition ; and the ploughman, if he 

 be not the owner, must be a man employed on the owner's farm 

 by the month or year. 



