102 [Assembly 



Cultivator for General Purposes. 



Pierrepoint Seymour^ East Blooinfield, enters Horse Cultivator. 



Kapalje & Co, J Rochester, 4 Cultivators. 



L. L. Whitbeck, Arcadia, 1 do ^ 



S. R, Tracy, Newark, 1 do 



ICillam& Yalleau, Rochester, 1 do 



Bradleys & Romaus, do 1 do . 



J. W. Hamilton, do 1 do 



H. H. Howe, Canaiidaigua, I do • 



Broad Cast Soioera. 



Pierrepont Seymour, East BioomSeld, two Broad Cast Sowin 

 Machines, 



or 



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Early on the morning of Tuesday, the 20th of July, the mar- 

 shal (Wm. Johnson^ Esq., of Ontario,) announced that the Mow- 

 ing Machines were on the ground, ready|for trial, lumbers cor- 

 responding with the lots surveyed and marked on the meadow 

 were drawn by the exhibitors, and each machine was directed to 

 its station according to the number drawn. 



A view of the field at this time, with the array of Mowing Ma- 

 chines of varied construction, claiming to save labor, and accom- 

 plish better work than had liitherto been effected by the farmer, 

 presented a scene of interest, not only to the agriculturist and 

 mechanic, but also to every man whoes views extended to the 

 advancement of his State and of the nation. It could not escape 

 the observing mind, that, in this State, producing annually about 

 four millions of tons of hay, there was on that field, machines hav- 

 ing the capacity to add, by their use, an annual income to the 

 farming population of more than a million of dollars; and ex- 

 tending these views beyond the limits of our State, applying them 

 to the Union, whose surface gives annually more than thirteen 

 TOi/Zion^ of tons of hay, how important becomes the invesiigation 

 of this class of machines, thereby exhibiting to the agriculturist 

 their powers, uses, and advantages.* 



•EstimatiDg the hay crop of the United States, a.? per the census of 1850 at 13,605,384 tons, 

 lsh<B average cost of cutting and making at $1 per ton, and the saving, by pse of Mowiflg Ma- 

 ^iads,, at OQe-forth of the present (>osU the manual gaia would be $3j4Jli34S, 



