Reports of Committees. 



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PLOWING— HORSE TEAMS— 8 entries. 



For best plowing team, Patrick Burns of Stockbridgc, $8 00 



2d do., Warren Crissey of Great Harrington, . 7 00 



3d do., E. E. Callender of Sheffield, «'» 00 



4th do., II. W. Burgett of Egremont, o 00 



Ira Curtiss, ) 

 Ciiauxcy D. Laxgdox, /- Committee. 



Darius S. Powell, ) 



PLOWING— OX TEAMS— 3 entries. 



The committee on plowing ox teams report as follows : 

 The printed regulations require "each team to plow one eight of an acre, 

 the time allowed being forty minutes. Tne plowing must be lapped and 

 the furrows not less than six inches deep, nor more than eleven inches 

 wide." Four ox teams were entered, and three plowed. The lands No. 2 

 and 3 were well plowed. No. 3 twenty-eight furrows, time forty-four 

 minutes— No. 2 thirtv-four furrows, time forty-eight minutes. No. 1 the 

 work was hot such as your committee think the society ought to encourage. 

 The other two the committee would have awarded premiums, had the regu- 

 lations been complied with. That the reasons which influenced and gov- 

 erned your committee in their action may. be properly understood, and that 

 no injustice be done to the plowman, Ave recommend that the matter be re- 

 ferred to the society for their action at their next annual meeting. 



J. II. Rowley, ] 

 B. C. Stoddard, r Committee. 

 L. I). Andrews, ) 



VELOCIPEDES. 



[As there were 110 contestants for the prizes on Velocipede riding the second day of the Fair, and 

 none on the third day until after the reports of committees were read, the chairman of the commit- 

 tee in that division presented a report on "nothing." In reply to a request from the secretary 

 for a copy of the report for publication, he says : "Yours received asking for my report on noth- 

 ing " to print with the others. It is emphat'cally nothing, and I fear wiU add notning to the 

 ••transactions" save the space it may occupy, but if it is desired to publish it, I don t know as I 

 ought to refuse. I enclose it herewith." SecbetaBT.] 



The Committee to whom was the task to decide, 



On the skill of a real velocipede ride, ' 



Have heeded their duty and beg leave to say, 



That "nary a one," was seen yesterday. 



W T e know some good people, who came miles to see 



This latest French notion from over the sea, 



And as your Committee have nought to decide, 



In regard to the skill, with which we can ride 



This wondrous bicycle, which six months agone, 



In town and in city had such a great run, 



