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Plowing with Single Teams. 



Committee. — Messrs. James P. Putnam, Fitchburg ; Solon Carter, Leom- 

 inster; Howard Gates, Ashby ; Jerome W. Foster, Ashburnham; Daniel 

 Miles, Westminster. 



Your Committee on Plowing with Single Teams would 

 submit the following report. There were thirteen single 

 teams entered for competition, one of which not coming under 

 the rules of the Society, was thrown out, thereby reducing 

 the number to twelve. The first premium of $7 00, your 

 Committee award to George H. Briggs, of Harvard ; your 

 Committee cannot refrain from speaking in terms of the highest 

 praise in this case, for the excellent discipline of his oxen, 

 which were very small, and himself a mere boy. Plow, — 

 Double Michigan. 



The second premium of $6 00, was awarded to Joseph 

 Upton, of Fitchburg, with Prouty & Mears' Michigan Plow, 

 No. 9. 



The third premium of $5 00, was awarded to Rodney 

 Fuller, of the Fitchburg Town farm, with the Double Mich- 

 igan Plow. 



The fourth premium of $4 00, was awarded to Samuel 

 Osgood, of Sterling. 



The fifth premium of $3 00, was awarded to W. W. Wat- 

 son, of Princeton, with the Double Michigan plow. 



The sixth and last premium of $2 00, was also awarded 

 to W. W. Watson, with his No. 73 1-2 R. N. & Mason's plow. 



Your Committee would earnestly call your attention to the 

 plowing of lot No. 14, as being performed in a very excellent 

 and workmanlike manner, by the son of Alonzo P. Goodrich. 

 Your Committee not being able to award him a premium, by 

 his not being the owner of one of the oxen a sufficient length 

 of time, would recommend a gratuity of $4 00. 



Your Committee cannot bat speak in terms of praise for 



the promptness with which the teams were all on the ground; 



every man being ready to start at the appointed time. Your 



Committee would have been glad to have given more premi- 



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