AWARDS OF PREMIUMS. 55 



Perhaps no article of American manufacture has received the 

 hio-hest premium at exhibitions more frequently than these scales. 

 The American Institute at New York has, for several years, 

 awarded Messrs. E. & T. Fairbanks & Co. the first premium for 

 the best Scales. In 1850 a gold medal was awarded. The first 

 premium has also been awarded them for the best Scales, for 

 several successive years, by the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 

 the Massachusetts Mechanics' and Charitable Association, the 

 New York State Fair, and various exhibitions in other States. 



At the recent Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations, at the 

 Crystal Palace, in New York, a Bronze Medal was awarded 

 them for the best Scales. 



We are happy to say that the careful examination we have 

 given these scales, enable us to concur in judgment with the 

 committees which have awarded the premiums above named. 

 To adopt the language of the committee at a recent State Fair in 

 New York, " the high celebrity to which these scales have every- 

 where attained, makes it needless for your committee to say 

 anything in commendation. Suffice it, that they, as ever, are 

 most beautifully constructed, most evenly balanced, and exquisi- 

 tely finished. The weight of the passing breath of air is enough 

 to bear them down. Where these scales are used even-handed 

 justice to all is sure to be meted out." 



28, 29. — The pair of Swifts, and the Spool Stand, exhibited 

 by Mr. Nathan Brick, show how the useful articles may at the 

 same time be fanciful. 



33. — A premium should be allowed to Mr. W. G. Wright, 

 103 E. Water st., Milwaukee, for his exhibition of a Sole-Leather 

 Trunk and Valise, of domestic manufacture, and having a vari- 

 ety of little conveniences for those who travel. The work ap- 

 peared to be substantial, a quality very essential in these days 

 of hurry and bustle. 



82. — The art of shoeing horses, is usually regarded as a sim- 

 ple one, that may be practiced by any person who can work a 

 shoe and drive a nail ; but this work properly requires much 

 careful study and adaptation of the shoe, and even the mode of 

 placing it upon the foot, to the particular circumstances of dif- 



