REPORT 



OF THE 



Committee en ^lial of implements at ©enct)a, 



JULY, 1852. 



To the Executive Committee of the 



JVew- York Slate Agricultural Society : 



jGrENTLEMEN — When we received your invitation to attend a 

 trial of implements and machinery, to ascertain by actual and 

 thorough trial, tlieir uses and merits, the impression was generally 

 entertained that comparative merits would occupy the attention 

 of the judges and satisfy the desire of the Society. 



When, however, the judges assembled in Geneva on the 20th 

 day of July, one only being absent,* it became at once evident 

 that the scrut^iy would not be confined to a comparison of re- 

 sults ; a demand seemed to exist and was unanimously admitted 

 that tlie examination should be conducted as far as practicable 

 with a design to prove that the more efficient artificial^ as well as 

 natural agents which ingenuity and skill can present to the far- 

 mer, the greater will be the amount of labor consumed in culti- 

 vation ; and in i)roportion to the skill and industry employed in 

 the adaptation and use of artificial agents, so will be the quantity 

 of products, or commodities for interchange among men. It was 

 admitted al<o that the substitution of well constructed machinery 

 for economizing human lalx'r, must ameliorate the condition of 

 the people, and increase every comfurt and enjoyment. 



• Mr. Kirtland of Rcruaelaer co, was unavoidably abeont. 



