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couraging the driving of a team so much beyond its power of 

 -endurance. If we should go into the field and find our men 

 urging our ox-team at such a rate, while breaking up sod 

 ground, we should think the cattle were abused, and feel like 

 • abusing the driver. Should we then encourage, at a prize trial, 

 what we would not alloiv on our own farms ? 



If it is understood that ploughing must be done at such an 

 extreme rate of speed in order to obtain a premium, very few 

 will be found to compete, because few cattle are quick enough 

 and at the same time sufficiently steady. We think it ought 

 to be xmderstood by competitors that excessive speed in plough- 

 ing is not an essential element of success, but that the premium 

 depends upon the quality of the work; and that, other things 

 being equal, a moderate team has an equal chance for the 

 prize. 



Committee — Joseph S. Howe, A. H. Patch, Jas. B. Foster, 

 ■J. B. Tewksbury, E. Harrington, J. Longfellow. 



PLOUGHING— SINGLE TEAMS. 



The Committee make the following awards : — 



To William Jaques, Newbury, the first premium of $7, and 

 a diploma. 



To Thomas G. Ordway, West Newbury, the second pre- 

 «nium, $6. 



Committee — S. A. Merrill, E. K. Lee, John Day, A. M. 

 Bodwell, Luther Noyes. 



PLOUGHING— WITH HORSES. 



The Committee report four entries, and make the following 

 awards : 



