216 MICHIGAN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The report on manufactured goods, Division L, was presented by Messrs. 

 Fralick and Reed. 



To the President and Executive Committee of the Michigan State Agricultural Society: 



The exhibition in some of the classes in this department was full and creditable, in 

 others smiall but mostly good. 



The HaU afforded sufficient and suitable room for all exhibitors, and was well ar- 

 ranged. Whole number of entries in Division, 149; whole amount of premiums 

 awarded, $142. 



The Division comprises classes 52 to 57, inclusive. 



In class 52, "Materials," there were 19 entries, 14 of wool, 5 of flax. The wool ex- 

 hibit was very good; premiums awarded on wool, $39. We recommend that more care- 

 ful attention be given to the note attached in the premium list, which reads as follows: 

 " That the fleece from which the samples are taken, age, sex and breed of the sheep, 

 and the breeder's name be shown on a card attached to each display." 



Flax, 5 entries, 6 samples exhibited. Some very good; premiums awarded $13. 



Class 53, factory-made goods; no premiums offered; small exhibit. We would recom- 

 mend that a liberal first and second premium be offered for the best display of goods of 

 their own make of any woolen, cotton or oil cloth factory in tliis State, as the encourage- 

 ment, especially of such manufactures in our State, is very desirable. 



Class 54, articles of dress goods ; no pi'emiums offered ; small, but good exhibit. 



Class 55, articles of leather and India rubber goods. In most of this kind of articles 

 the exhibit was small, except in the display of boots and shoes, which was large and 

 very good. Premiums awarded, $20 ; discretionary premiums awarded in this class, $8. 



Class 56, articles of furniture ; display and quality good. Premiums awarded, $63. 



Class 57, stoves, iron work and ornamental concrete works. The display of all kinds 

 of stoves, ranges, furnaces, floor tile, mantels, solid bronze, and door trimmings, and 

 many other articles of that class of goods, was very large and good. The manu- 

 facture of stoves and ranges of all kinds and varieties is a great and impor- 

 tant business, especially in the City of Detroit, and in some of the interior towns, the 

 goods finding an extensive sale, not only in all parts of our own country, but in foreign 

 lands, thereby attesting their superiority. The course adopted some years ago by tliis 

 Society, to offer no premiums on stoves, has resulted in no loss of interest at the Yearly 

 Exhibitions of this Society. 



There is a very large class of articles embraced in this division of manufactured 

 goods which are yearly exhibited at our Fairs, on wliich there is no premium offered ; 

 but a large share of the articles are valuable products to the manufacturers, and of 

 great utility to the consumer, and we recommend that a liberal policy be pursued by 

 this Society for their exhibition, by providing ample and proper room and other reason- 

 able facilities to such exhibitors in this department. 



All of which is respectfully submitted, 



HENRY FRALICK, 

 F. L. REED, 

 Superintendents of Manufactured Goods. 



Accepted and referred to Committee on Premiums. 

 Superintendent Hanford read the report of Division I, as follows : 



DIVISION I — FARM IMPLEMENTS. 



To the President and Executive Committee of the Michigan State Agricultural Society^ 



Gentlemen — Owing to several quite unfavorable circumstances, it was thought 

 by many that the Farm Implements Department would be poorly represented at our 

 last State Fair. The low price of wheat and wool for the last two or three years, 

 together with the lai-ge amount of corn that was imported into the State during the 

 winter of 1884, for farmers' use, caused trade in many lines of agricultural implements 

 to fall off quite materially. With this loss of trade came the additional expense ot half 

 freight rates to and from the Fair, which we had reason to fear would keep heavy arti- 

 cles from coming. ' We have the pleasure of reporting, however, a very general attend- 

 ance of exhibitors, with a full line of implements in the several Classes. Sixty-six 

 firms and individuals made 273 entries in time to be printed in the catalogue. Eighty- 

 seven firms, many of them the largest exliibitors at the Fair, are only known as mem- 

 bers of the Society. Our exhibit was equal in numbers and merit to that of any previ- 

 ous Fair, in fact, surpassed them in some points; but when perfection is nearly reached, 

 w^e cannot expect the radical improvement w^e have sefen, since I first had the honor 



