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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE SPADINCx MATCH AT 

 WHITE PLAINS, OCT. 5, 1848. 



Your committee on spading would respectfully report: 



That they attended the duties assigned them with great pleasure, 

 and that five persons entered their names to contend for the premi- 

 ums offered by the Institute. All performed the work assigned them 

 in less than forty minutes, and in a superior manner. 



Your committee awarded to 



Joseph Mulley, the first premium, for the best spading. 

 William P. Lodge, second premium for the 2d best spading. 

 Joseph P. Lodge, third do do 3d do 



Your committee would not fail to recommend to your considera- 

 tion John Padden and John Barclay, the other two persons who en- 

 tered for competition, for the very handsome and speedy manner in 

 which they performed their work, and only regret that they had not 

 premiums sanctioned by the Institute to award to (hem also. 



Your committee would take this occasion to respectfully suggest to 

 tillers of the ground generally the great and paramount importance, 

 in order to secure a successful crop, of preparing well their ground, 

 and they take great pleasure in awarding these premiums, in hope 

 that it may prove a stimulus to others engaged in agriculture to strive 

 to excel in this most useful art to the husbandman of" spading well? 



W. I. TOWNSEND, 

 A. S. PRIME, 

 J. AMES LOCKE, 

 JOHN BRILL, 



Committee on spading. 

 Mew-York, Oct. 5, 1848. 



