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STOVES, CUTLERY AND SILVER WARE— Xo. or Enteies, 26. 



Judges. — A. F. Cady, Watertown ; Daniel Wells, Jr., Milwaukee ; 



Joseph Cart, Milwaukee. 



Best cooking stove ; C. Shepard, Milwaukee. Bronze medal. 



Second best cooking stove ; Decker & Saville, Milwaukee. Transactions. 



Best ornamental parlor stove ; Decker & Saville, Milwaukee. Bronze 

 medal. 



Best sample of hollow ware ; Decker & Saville, Milwaukee. Fessenden's 

 Complete Farmer and Gardener. 



Best exhibition of table cutlery ; Henry J. Nazro & Co., Milwaukee. 

 Fessenden. 



Best exhibition of pocket cutlery ; Henry J. Nazro & Co., Milwaukee. 

 Transactions. 



Best exhibition of silver ware ; A. B. Van Cott, Milwaukee. Transac- 

 tions. 



Parlor cook stove ; Lansing Bonnell, Milwaukee. Transactions. 



Coal grate ; C. Shepard, Milwaukee. Transactions. 



MISCELLANEOUS AXD DISCRETIONARY.— Xo. of Exteies, 170. 

 Judges — I. A. Lapham, Milwaukee, Chairman. 



The Committee in their report, speak of the very great number of 

 articles presented for their consideration, and especially their varied 

 character, and regret that the time was necessarily so limited which 

 ■was alloted for their examination. 



" Many of the articles exhibited were without competition, inasmuch 

 as they were sui generis. The Committee, however, endeavored to notice 

 all articles that seemed worthy, and with as much impartiality as possi- 

 ble. In the great multiplicity of important inventions exhibited, they 

 remark that it would not be strange, if, in some cases, they had failed 

 to appreciate them properly. 



" B. A. Jenkins, of Genesee, exhibited a casting for a wind-mill and 

 pump, of very simple construction. And J. W. Osborn, of Albany, N. 

 Y., had in operation the model of a wind-mill, so arranged that the 

 draft of wind could be regulated. These ancient contrivances have their 



