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that it does. But your committee to-day feel that that time 

 has uot fully come. From what knowledge we have acquired 

 with regard to the Swivel Plough, we fiud that it makes better 

 work in going one way than it does the other, and that it is 

 not so easily managed as the common plough. When all ob- 

 stacles can be overcome, and all the merits of the common 

 plough be attained, I think that the farmers of Essex County, 

 and of every other county, will feel that we have advanced 

 one step forward in the means of cultivating our farms, as it 

 would enable us to keep our ploughing more together, have a 

 tendency to keep our land smoother and more free from ridges 

 and dead furrows, &c. 



Yet, in justice to the Charter Oak, that has been upon the 

 field to-day, the comm.ttee feel that it has done its work well. 

 There were but two entries made, that of D. C. Hathaway, of 

 Danvers, with the Charter Oak, and tliat of Sylvester Dane, 

 of Hamilton, with the Enterprise — a novel constructed plough, 

 with two mould-boards and a swivel beam, but owing to the 

 breaking of one mould-board before the trial, exchanged it for 

 the Charter Oak, using the same kind of plough that his con- 

 testant used. The committee regret that there were not more 

 competitors, and different kind of ploughs. Both did their 

 work very well, but the displacing or breaking of a bolt on 

 Mr. Hathaway's plough, detained and somewhat discouraged 

 him, and consequently he did uot do as well as he would 

 under more favorable circumstances. 



The committee feel justified in awarding to Sylvester Dane, 

 Hamilton, two horse team, first premium, $10 ; D. C. Hatha- 

 way, Danvers, two horse team, second premium, $6. 



There were also a pair of large, young Bulls, well trained, 

 and did good work, belonging to W. A, Russell, of North 

 Andover, to which the committee would have given a premium, 

 had they come within the rules of the Society. 



Horace C. Ware, Aaron Knowlton, Albert Kimball, Hiram 

 A. Stiles, Richard Webster — Committee. 



