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exceeded by no others, wherever they have been 

 used. Their superiority consists in the length and 

 curvature of the mould board, by which the sod is 

 turned unbroken, and laid entirely flat, instead of 

 angular. The beam is also so constructed that the 

 draft is applied with the best possible advantage. — 

 The work done by these ploughs at the ploughing 

 match was very good, and your committee would 

 recommend a premium to be given to Mr Samuel J. 

 Barker, of Andover, who entered the ploughs, but 

 are restrained by the terms of one of the rules of the 

 society, which require that the improved implement 

 shall be the invention of the exhibitor, in order to 

 entitle him to the premium. 



ALLEN W. DODGE, 

 September 30, 1840. DANIEL MOULTON. 



To J. W. Proctor, Esq. 



Dear sir — I accompanied the old gentleman from 

 the meeting-house, on cattle-show day, as you re- 

 quested, and examined the horse hand rake, an 

 invention of his son, who was with him and who was 

 prevented from exhibiting it at the usual time, by his 

 inability to find the committee. If you recollect, no 

 other member of the committee but myself was pre- 

 sent. Mr. Moulton acted with me, in examining the 

 ploughs, as will be seen by the former report. You 

 can add the following to that report, if it can con- 

 sistently be done. 



Yours, respectfully, 



ALLEN W. DODGE. 



Hamilton, October 5, 1840. 



To the Trustees of the Agricultural Society. 



Gentlemen — At a late hour and after making the 

 above report, Moses Noyes Adams, of Newbury, 



