Litchfield enquirer., 1852-10-21
The Bridgeport Flowing Match.
Fjr he LifchfeId En0ui

' Y" Me L1cnge|1 EnQuweT.
 Believing thata short history of the Un- ion blowing match will be interesting to your readers wlll endeavor to give you facts as they came to my knowledge.
 The field selected was situated about one
 mile west of the city neal. the Rail Road. In taking Il superficial view of the field il presented a most 1iids0ns and forbidding appearance mol having been pIoWed it was said for twenty years, alid being covered with burnt grass and bogs so That it seemed al first view impOsSiblo to exhibit decent sa'hT le of blowing. yet sirange as it may appear when the blowing was done not Il veslage of eilher hog UT grass (some of which was iIiore itihn two feet hrgh cuui, beseen. The whole field presented u 'nos' beautiful api'earance.
 The cOmpeIiiors were thirty two in number, consisting of ,lle best pIowmen tho manufacturers of the different kinds plOwsA could select from the varlous States without regard tQ distance. Bral,leborO, Vermont ana Providence R l. had each Representative; and quite a number iron
 Massachusetts. 1t Was truthful remark that, the strength'o of the nation was there
 By vote of the nlowmen, the time was fixed at two hours for one fourth of an acre. The depth was fixed by the committee al inches. Before the work comrneuced. it was announced by the chairman of the committees from tie stage in the presence df the assembled thousands' that the plow- In.n who should lay his furrows Aaitest. ta> king into consideration al tue dlfficultl-s encounlered in the in. qualities of the diff firent lands, should receive the first pre- . lniuln. after which the teams arranged tle'nSeves acc"r ii"g to the nlnbrrs the, had drawn and at a given signal the plow. ing commenced. ll was admitted tIlnt alr the plowmen went the required depth. anu nearly all i.1ished within n'.he tiuNe. The committee cousisted nt five, and ih making heir award were divided between Mr. J4. roa1 of Bloo,ntiel and Mir. r. l.. Hart o! Cornwall for thr! first premium.
 It was then prop'sei that, inasmuch ns Mr.. Hart received the first premium last year aud Mr. Jerome failed to receive any. he (Jerome) should receive the first this year. the vole then stood three for Jerome and two for Hart. Subsequently one ot the three committee who voted for Jerome, said that. had not Mr. Hart rece.ved the fist premium lust year he would have b1en entitled to 1t this year. and would nave received it. Another of the three, acknowledged that tfl@re was 6alter plow> ing than that done by Jerome.
 Thus it will b0 seeh the committee vio- plated their own rule which they had made for each of the competitors to be governed by. aud. which they had repea, ed in preseuce Uf the muiItuieS assei einhIeu.
 luis needless therefore 10 say. that great injustice has been done to nl! the co'np-,I.. IOrs as well as to the manufacturers of plows. in having any reference as to who dEi, or did n6t receWe the iis, premium last ear. The fact that Mir. Jer1mo faii. eA to c.i,nply with the rules last year should not have entitled him to the first premium this year.
 It is jnsIly due to the competitors for the preniiulns, us we'll as'tO the manufac turers of piows, that these tacts be laid be fore the community. JUSTICE