REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 



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PLOWING— SINGLE TEAMS. 



The PloWj rejoicing in an antiquity of more than three 

 thousand years, is one of the oldest and best implements 

 of the husbandman. Like all the common productions 

 of this exceedingly wise and fast generation, it has, by 

 many, recently been supposed to have attained to its 

 highest degree of perfection and excellence. Similar 

 opinions may have obtained from the days of Moses, 

 throughout all succeeding time to the present period^ 

 but such opinions are always dangerous, and heretical, 

 and operate as a bar and a clog upon all progress. 



That great improvement has been made, whereby the 

 friction has been reduced and the furrow turned over 

 more perfectly, with a less required amount of muscular 

 force to do the same work in a better manner we are not 

 prepared to deny, but when we boast of a Plow so greatly 

 superior to the crude instruments used by Egyptian, 

 Greek or Iloman, or even of the Dutch or English, it is 

 probable, nay more than probable that when we have 

 slept with our fathers, and ere another generation shall 

 have passed away, our boasted Michigan's and other 



