Reports of Committees. 53 



PLOWING MATCH. 



HORSE TEAMS. 



Your Committee have done what they supposed was required of them, and submit 

 the following report, and, as a prelude, would say : That of the antiquity of the 

 plow we know but little, yet a long time ago a certain man accused his enemies of 

 plowing with his heifer ; showing that the plow was a common tool in those days. 

 And until within comparatively a few years, the plow has been one simple, uncouth 

 instrument. Like dentistry, which a few years ago used the inevitable canthook or 

 turnkey, as the}' called it, to extract the offending molars. See the change. Now 

 the dentist's kitt contains a finely constructed instrument, fitted exactly to every 

 individual molar, bicuspid, canine and incisor tooth in the human head. And the 

 farmer can find a plow fitted exactly to every different spot of land, and also for the 

 many different styles of plowing the same land. And to conclude, we would recom 

 mend the free use of a certain kind of fertilizer, which we would name the superior 

 horse-fate of iron. It not only enriches the land, but at the same time eradicates 

 all weeds and foul stuff, and is obtained mostly by drawing a plow through the soib 

 although small quantities are secured by the use of the hoe cultivator, &c. This 

 fertilizer is second to none. We had seven entries, two withdrawing without a trial- 

 The plowing was well done, and we award as follows : 



Patrick Burns, Stockbridge, $ 7,00 



Joseph Foot, Pittsfield, 0,00 



Elisha Collins, Gt. Barrington, 5,00 



John F. Clark, Pittsfield, 4,00 



Ira Richmond, } 



C. 0. Perkins, > Committee. 



H. M. Owens, ) 



OX TEAMS. 



S. H. Baker, Lenox, #6,00 



C. E. Dewey, Lenox, 5,00 



Chauncey Sears, Lenox, 4,00 



N. C. Root, Lenox, 8,00 



Geo. Higginson, Jr.,} 



Samuel Miner, > Committee. 



Amos Smith, j 



REPORTS. 



The Committee on Reports have examined those submitted to them, and award as 

 follows : 



Richard Goodman, Lenox, Chairman of Committee on Pedigrees. 

 Alexander Hyde, Lee, Chairman of Committee on Farms, Orchards, Fruit Trees, 



Dairies, and Reclaimed Lands. 

 Leraan Wood, Lanesboro, Chairman of Committee on Agriculture. 



G. T. Plunk ett, } 



A. Oilman, > Committee. 



A. T. Bucklin, J 



