66 ON FAT CATTLE ON PLMUGIlIiNG. 



meal or other grain was given them till after the middle 

 of May, and from that time to the present they have 

 had about three quarts each, of Indian meal per day — 

 with a very small increase for the last two or three 

 weeks. They have been kept in one ordinary pasture, 

 without change, to this time, and were put to pasture 

 about the first of June. Nearly all the work upon the 

 farm was performed by this yoke during the winter, as 

 we had no others shod — they also performed a large 

 share of the spring work, and have occasionally been 

 used to the yoke during the summer. All of which is 

 respectfully submitted, by 



Your obedient servants, 



JOHN LAMSON, 

 JOSIAH LAMSON, 

 Topsfield, Sept. 25, 1844. 



D. S. CALDWELL'S STATEMENT, 

 7^0 the Committee on Fat Cattle: 



Gentlemen, — I present for a premium, one fat Ox, 

 seven years old, which, with his mate, has performed 

 most of the work on a farm of two hundred acres for 

 two years past, on ordinary keeping. They have been 

 fed with salt hay in winter, English hay in spring, and 

 common pasture in summer. They have not to my 

 knowledge had the amount of one bushel of corn, meal, 

 or roots. Besides the work on the farm, they have 

 worked four days last week for neighbors. 



D. S. CALDWELL. 



Byfield, Sept. 23, 1844. 



ON PLOUGHING WITH DOUBLE TEAMS. 



The Committee on ploughing with double teams, re- 

 port that there were eleven entries, as follows: 

 By Stephen Emerson, of Middleton. 

 " George P. Wilkins, " " 



