liEPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 



PLOWING. 



Committee.— Ezra Kendall, Sterling,— James P. Putnam, Fitchburi/,— 

 Samuel P. Gibson, AMiy,— John Wmot, Westminster,— Samuel M. Dole, 

 Fiichburg. 



The Plow holds the same relative position among the im- 

 plements of the husbandman, that Charity does among the 

 the cardinal virtues — it is the greatest of them all. Although 

 it may not cover a multitude of failings, it does, if rightly- 

 managed, root up and enrich the earth. To the working- 

 farmer, capital invested in its shares, and their operations, 

 returns the best dividends ; besides, while he directs its man- 

 agement, he is sure of no false or fraudulent issues, and if 

 he doubles his shares he is not compelled to do it in order to 

 save his old ones, but does it with the assurance of increasing 

 his capital at the same time without an increase of his debt, 

 or scarcely of an increase of cost in cultivation. Deep cul- 

 tivation is the order of the day, but so managed as to pul- 

 verize and mix the soil, by a succession of plowings, as m 

 the end, to make a deep ricii soil, which will afford a supply 

 of food as well as drink, as the roots of plants descend. 



The field selected for the trial tliis day, was well adapted 

 for a trial of skill and workmanship. The field was laid in 

 lands, twelve rods long and twenty feet wide; and twelve 

 teams havina: been entered according to tlie rules of the 





