REPORTS, & 



c. 



ON PLOUGHING WITH DOUBLE TEAMS. 



The Committee on Ploughing with Double Teams, consisting 

 of Messrs. Dodge, of Wenham, Brown, of Ipswich, Carr, of 

 West Newbury, Osborn, of Saugus, and Sutton, of Salem, Re- 

 port : 



That there were thirteen competitors, to Avhom lots of one 

 quarter of an acre each were assigned by lot. to be ploughed 

 not less than seven inches deep, viz : 



Aaron Kinsman, 

 Jedediah H. Barker. 

 S. B. Swan, 

 Amos Poor, 

 Allen W. Dodge, 

 Nehemiah Dodge, 

 Barzillai Gould, 

 Joseph Goodrich, 



of Ipswich, 



of Andover, 



of Danvers, 



of West Newbury, 



of Hamilton, 



of Essex, 



of Middleton, 



of West Newbury, 



Micajah Tread well, of Ipswich, 



Benjamin Poore, of West Newbury, 



Benjamin Holt, of Danvers, 



George Hodgedon, of Ipswich, 

 13. Thomas Low, of Ipswich. 



The several teams were promptly on the ground, at the time 

 appointed, and started precisely at 10 o'clock. They all finish- 

 ed their work before 11 o'clock. The time varied from thirty- 

 five to forty-four minutes; but as all of them did it in a suffi- 

 ciently short time, we do not think it necessary to state the 



