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Willard L. Fisk, Saugus, Plymouth Rock Chicks, first pre- 

 mium, '$2. 



Peter M. Neal, Lynn, Plymouth Rock Chicks, second pre- 

 mium, $1. 



George Buchan, J. I. Ladd, Hiram Young. — Conimitlee. 



PLOUGBING— DOUBLE OX TEAMS. 



The Committee award to : — 



Benjamin H. Farnum, North Andover, first premium, $12. 



J. J. H. Gregory, Marblehead, second premium, $10. 



M. H. Poor, W. H. Greenleaf, Geo. M. Wonson. — Committee. 



PLOUGHING— SINGLE TEAMS. 



The Committee on ploughing with single ox teams report 

 but one entry ; that of Charles J. Peabody of Topsfield. 



The land on which Mr. Peabody ploughed was stiff and 

 clayey, and owing to the dryness of the season, very hard, 

 making it difficult to do good work with a team and plough as 

 light as Mr. Peabody's. One part of the field was well done; 

 another part over which ran a cart-path, was not ploughed so 

 well. 



It was the opinion of the committee or a portion of it, that 

 Mr. Peabody would have made better work if he had cut his 

 furrow slices one or two inches narrower. 



The committee regret that there were not more entries by 

 which they could judge of the comparative quality of the 

 work performed, but it seems that the horse has largely super- 

 seded the ox on our farms. At some of the ploughing matches 

 twenty-five or thirty years ago, there were more competitors in 

 this class than in any other, against one competitor in each of 

 the last three years. 



The committee unanimously award to Charles J. Peabody, of 

 Topsfield, the second premium of $5. 



Geo. L. Hawkes, Chairman. 



