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was the slowness of its operation, having but one knife. With an ad- 

 ditional knife, we think it would be a very efficient machine. It has 

 been got up in good style, and reflects great credit on the inventor 

 and maker, and is worthy of encouragement. 



There were other very meritorious machines on the ground, but 

 the committee have not had time to enumerate and describe them. 



The Horse Rake is generally considered a great labor saving and 

 important implement on most farms, and a most valuable invention, 

 and its utility has exceeded the expectations of many; and that on 

 tolerable smooth meadows, a man with one horse, will rake as much 

 hay, and do it in as clean a manner, as eight men can do it in an equal 

 time with the hand rake. 



The committee regret that there was so little competition, there 

 being only two implements of this description exhibited; and as there 

 was no improvement manifested on the common horse rake, which 

 has been long in use, the committee have thought proper to withhold 

 the first premium; but in consideration of the superior workmanship, 

 have awarded a premium of $3, to J. Downer of Castleton, Rensse- 

 laer county, N. Y. 



To Lewis Stiman of Bethlehem, for the second best horse rake, a 

 diploma. 



The committee next examined the Fanning Mills, four of which 

 were entered for competition. The one exhibited by Messrs. I. E. 

 Grant & Co. of Schaghticoke, Rensselaer county, has been got up 

 with great care and superior workmanship; and by a peculiar arrange- 

 ment of the screens, it appeared to combine some improvement over 

 the ordinary machines; the committee therefore have awarded them 

 the first premium of $8. 



The second premium of $5, to Phineas W. Dickie of Phelps, N. 

 Y. for a mill of good construction and great power, combining some 

 valuable improvements, and well adapted for a large grain growing 

 country. 



The committee recommend a diploma to John J. Bullock of Guil- 

 derland, Albany county, for a well finished and well constructed ma- 

 chine, well adapted to this section. 



In concluding this report, the committee avail themselves of this 

 opportunity to express their great satisfaction at the present exhibi- 

 tion, and earnestly hope at the next and all future meetings of this 

 Society, the mechanics and manufacturers of the country, would bring 

 forward the productions of their ingenuity and industry, which so 

 much contributed to make the exhibition as interesting and satisfac- 

 tory as those of any other country. At the meeting of the Royal 

 Agricultural Society of England, in July last, between four and five 

 hundred articles of agricultural implements and machinery were ex- 

 hibited. 



Those persons who have been accustomed to follow the same 

 course of husbandry which their fathers and grandfathers adopted, 

 have formed the opinion that little is to be learned upon this subject. 

 It is difficult to make them comprehend that this art involves princi- 

 ples as extensive, and as hard to be understood, as any other art 



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