50 ONPLOUGHING. 



time of each precisely- Nearly all the ploughs used were man- 

 ufactured by Ruggles, Nourse & Mason, and were of their most 

 approved patterns. The work was so well done that the Com- 

 mittee would have awarded premiums to all. had it been al- 

 lowed by the Society. We unanimously recommend that the 

 premiums be awarded as follows, viz : 

 To Aaron Kinsman, of Ipswich, 1st premium, $10 00 



" Joseph Goodrich, of W. Newbury, 2d " 8 00 



" Benjamin Poore, of W. Newbury, 3d " 6 00 



" Allen W. Dodge, of Hamilton, 4th " 4 00 



and to S. B. Swan, of Dan vers, and Thomas Low, of Ipswich, 

 a gratuity of Washington's Letters on Agriculture, one copy 

 each. 



The Committee were highly gratified to find so many com- 

 petitors in this most interesting trial of skill. Notwithstanding 

 these trials have been so often repeated, they are still received 

 with increasing interest, and every succeeding year brings to 

 notice some valuable improvements. The Committee are 

 strongly impressed with the superior value of those ploughs 

 which lay the furrow slice flat and even, especially in the cul- 

 tivation of grass. Care should be taken by the ploughman that 

 he does not cut a wider furrow than the plough was intended 

 to cut, and then it will be entirely smooth in appearance, and 

 we know of none superior for this purpose to those manufac- 

 tured by Ruggles, Nourse &. Mason. 



For the Committee, 



W. SUTTON. 

 Ipswich, Sept. 24th, 1845. 



WITH SINGLE TEAMS 



The Committee on Ploughing with Single Teams (present 

 Messrs. Howes, of Salem, Northend, of Byfield, Follansbee, of 

 West Newbury, and Pilsbury, of Newbury,) have attended to 

 that duty, and Report : 



That seven teams were entered for the premiums offered on 

 this subject. One quarter of an acre of land, two rods by twen- 



