82 ON PLOUGHING. 



The lot selected for ploughing was a lot of pasture 

 land of Samuel Brocklebank's, a part of which was 

 very rooty, with some small bushes, and difficult to 

 plough; and the committee are of opinion, consider- 

 ing the quality of the land, that the ploughing will 

 not suffer by a comparison with the ploughing of any 

 former years. 



The land was laid or marked oif in lots, and num- 

 bered from one to nine, beginning at the north side. 



Lot No. 1, was not drawn by any one, but was 

 taken by Jedediah H. Barker, by consent, (he hav- 

 ing drawn No. 9, which he relinquished to accom- 

 modate a single team,) which he ploughed with 

 Prouty & Mears' plough, in fifty four minutes, with 

 twenty three furrows. 



Lot No. 2, was drawn by Andrew Towne, which 

 he ploughed in fifty minutes, with Ruggles Sl 

 Nourse's plough, with twenty two furrows. 



Lot No. 3, drawn by Alexander Davidson, which 

 he ploughed in sixty minutes, with a wooden plough, 

 with iron mould board, with twenty four furrows. 



Lot No 4, drawn by Hobart Clark, was ploughed 

 in fifty minutes, with Ruggles &l Nourse's plough, 

 with twenty three furrows. 



Lot No. 5, drawn by Samuel F. Barker, which he 

 ploughed in forty four minutes, with Prouty &, Mears' 

 plough, with twenty two furrows. 



Lot No. 6, drawn by Joseph Goodridge, which 

 was ploughed in forty five minutes, with Howard's 

 plough, with twenty two furrows. 



Lot No. 7, drawn by Jacob F. Davis, which he 

 ploughed in forty one minutes, with wooden plough, 

 with iron mould board, with nineteen furrows. 



Lot No. 8, drawn by Perley Tapley, which was 

 ploughed in forty five minutes, with Moore &l Ma- 

 son's plough, with twenty four furrows. 



After the best examination which the committee 

 were able to make while the teams were ploughing, 

 and a more particular examination of the several 

 lots after they were ploughed, and the teams had 



