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 REPORT ON PLOUGHING. 



DOUBLE TEAMS. 



Whole number of entries, 4. 



Second premium to Geo. 0. Farrington, of Dedliam, (Nourse 

 & Son's " Universal" Plough, No. 4,) $8. 



Fourth premium to WiUiam Fales, of Dedham, (Side Hill 

 Plough, Sanborn's Patent, No. 2,) $4. 



Micldgan Sod and Subsoil Plough. — First premium to Horace 

 and Moses Whiting, of Dedham, (Nourse & Mason's Plough No. 

 34,) $10. _ 



There being but one Double Horse Team for ploughing, that 

 ■was assigned to the Committee on Ox Teams, who award the first 

 premium of $10 to Luther Eaton, of Dedham, (Nourse & Son's 

 " Universal" Plough, No. 5.) 



For the Committee, 



JOHN H. ROBINSON, Chairman. 



Dedham, Sept. 26, 1862. 



SINGLE OX TEAMS. 



The Committee on Ploughing with single Ox Teams report that 

 the only entry was made by Daniel Sullivan, of Dover, to whom 

 they award the second premium of four dollars. 



The plough, which was held by himself, was Nourse's Universal 

 Iron Beam Sod Plough, No. 4. Mr. S. had owned his cattle but 

 a short time, consequently they did not move so well as they 

 probably would have done liad he owned them longer. Perhaps 

 no farming implement has been more improved within the last half 

 century than the plough, consequently land can now be ploughed 

 better and with much less expense than it could have been thirty 

 or forty years ago. Some of us can remember what was formerly 

 called a " breaking-up team," which often consisted of three yoke 

 of oxen and a horse, and required five men — two to drive, one to 

 hold, one to turn what the plough refused to do, and, as the 

 length of the chain was then the only thing to regulate the depth 

 of the plough, one man was necessary to bear on or lift up the 

 beam as occasion required. 



If such a team would plough an acre in a day, and we allow 

 $1.25 per day for each man, including board, and the same 

 for a horse and each yoke of oxen, the expense of ploughing an 

 acre of green sward would be $11.25. 



