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duce amply repaid the annual labour. I consider it now as profita- 

 ble grass land as any on the farm. I have pursued this course, for 

 the time mentioned, and the produce of this meadow land for the 

 three last years, has been more profitable than in any of the pre- 

 ceeding years, although the quality of the grass has rather depre- 

 ciated, yet the quantity has increased in a greater proportion, and 

 it is now good stock hay. 



Yours respectfully, 



JACOB OSGOOD. 

 AndoveVf Novemher %ith, 1829. 



III. ON PLOUGHING—DOUBLE TEAMS. 



The Committee upon Ploughing with two yoke"of Oxen 



Report : — 

 That seven teams were entered for premiums— and performed the 

 work in the following manner ; — 



No. 1. Enos Kendrick, of Amesbury, 30 furrows in 58 min. 



** 2. Moses Kimball, of Boxford, 



** 3. John Bricket, jr. of Haverhill, 



" 4. Richard Jaques, of Newbury, 



" 5. Perley Tapley, of Danvers, 



** 6. Isaac Osgood, Esq. of Andover, 



*' 7. Robert Stewart, of Haverhill, 



The Committee award premiums as follows : — 



To Enos Kendrick, the first premium, 



*' Perley Tapley, the second premiumj 



" John Bricket, jr. third premium. 



The whole work, by all the teams, was performed so well, that 



the Committee had difficulty in deciding among the claimants, and 



therefore take the liberty to recommend that a gratuity be awarded 



to Richard Jaques, Isaac Osgood, Esq. and Robert Stewart, of four 



dollars each, instead of awarding the fourth premium to any one of 



them. 



The team of three horses, by Rufus Slocum, of Haverhill, per- 

 formed its work with skill and dispatch — to wit, in 45 minutes \ and 



