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To cap the climax, in our plow examination, was tlie model 

 steel-plate plow exhibited and explained to us by that inimitable 

 mechanical genius, Major J. M. May, of Janesville, the inventor. 

 "Why won't the Major, or some one else, manufacture some plows 

 after these models ? We should be glad to follow in the wake 

 of this plow, for we think it must be superior. Vol. Trans. 



S. S. Mayers, Janesville, Yale's Pat. Store Lock. — This is a 

 saperior invention. Dip. 



Berliner & Bruno, Milwaukee, exhibited several very fine 

 safes, of their own manufacture, and if our business men should 

 be satisfied that the article is equal to eastern manufacture, why 

 not patronise them ? Dip. 



J. Nash, Janesville, best fanning mill,, . . . Dip. 



N. Moulton, Rochester, 2d best do, .... $3 



The committee tried each mill in cleaning wheat, but the 

 weather was wet, and most of the mills had stood out in the 

 rain during the previous night, so that the trial was far from 

 being entirely satisfactory. 



They feel that all the mills on exhibition, should have a 

 favorable mention. Gaboon & McGregor, Madison — is a very 

 fine mill — cleaned well. 



Vose, Mitchell & Co,, Milwaukee — Eagle mill, very good. 



P. W. Dickey, Kenosha — don't everybody know that Dickey's 

 mill is good? 



Nathaniel Moulton, Rochester, Wis., Badger State fanning 

 mill — could be beat only by Jefferson Nash's Excelsior mill, of 

 Janesville — the one, as we thought, entitled to the first, and the 

 other to the second premium. 



S. L. James, Beloit, Wis., best farm wagon, . . . Dip. 

 S. B. Gage, Beloit, Wis., 2d best do, .... $3 



The show of farm wagons was superior, and every one de- 

 serving of a premium, if the funds of the society would admit of 

 it; and that is the reason why we recommend a discretionary 

 premium to Mr. Dow, of Whitewater, whose wagon, perhaps, 

 was equal to that of Mr. Gage's. 



William Hansel, of Milwaukee, had three very fine wagons 

 — ^well made. 



