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favorites of all long wooled sheep; they produce more wool and longer 

 wool than any other breed. 



The Cotswolds for mutton are the most profitable sort of sheep known. 

 There is a blending of fat and lean, and a juciness of meat altogether 

 superior, while the weight will exceed any other sort. 



In conclusion, I respectfully submit to your judgment the facts as 

 stated. I might quote a mass of authority for every satement sub- 

 mitted, but prefer to leave the subject as presented to your intelligence. 



One statement more which I overlooked: for crossing with other 

 breeds, the Cotswolds are admitted by all good breeders of sheep to be 

 superior to any other variety. 



This enterprise is one calculated to be of vast and permanent value to 

 this coast, and I claim some credit for this importation. I shall expect 

 the gold medal for making the best exhibit of the best breed of sheep 

 made at the State Fair this year — the most valuable show of stock. 



Eespectfully, W. T. WILSON. 



SECOND DEPARTMENT. 



STATEMENT OF LINFOETH, EELLOGG & CO., OF SAN 



FEANCISCO. 



To the Gold Medal Committee: 



Gentlemen: We claim the gold medal for the "World" mower and 

 mower and reaper combined, because it is the most perfect machinery 

 of its kind made. Unlike all other reapers and mowers, the gearing is 

 cast blank, like this cut. It is accurately bored, then placed in the lathe 

 and turned down to a standard size, which is unvarying as the finest 

 calculation and skill can make it. From the lathe it comes in the shape 

 shown in this cut, excepting that there is no tooth (the artist having 

 introduced this to show its relation to the general surface of the blank), 

 and is perfect in all its proportions, eveiy part of it having been sub- 

 jected to the most accurate measurement. From the lathe, the blank 

 passes to the gear cutter, upon which the cogs are cut with faultless 

 precision and the pinion delivered in the shape shown in this illustration. 

 Nothing in mechanism can excel the exactness with which these gear 

 cutters (models of ponderous elegance) do their work. They (the gear 

 cutters) were invented and built expressly for this purpose, at a cost of 

 two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and are the wonder and praise 

 of all who see them. They have been made to do work perfectly by a 

 process which the best mechanical talent of the country had pronounced 

 impracticable — all previous attempts having failed. Thus, from the 

 character of the machinery and mechanical ability employed in its con- 

 struction, you can judge of the mechanical excellencies of the " World " 

 mower and reaper and mower. Every wheel and cog is made by the 

 same process and with equal care. The blanks are cast as perfectly as 

 any other casting, turned down to a standard gauge, bored with equal 

 precision, and the cogs cut so faultlessly that one does not differ in the 



