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The duty of the judges might have been confined strictly and 

 fairly to a report of the successful machines, yet as agricultural 

 machinery may be esteemed as being in its youth, immature, as 

 ingenuity and skill stamped their features on most of the ma- 

 chines presented, it seems alike due to the mechanic and farmer, 

 to present a notice of the unsuccessful as Vv'ell as of the more favor- 

 ed machines. 



The annexed table exhibits, in a condensed form, the distinctive 

 characteristics of the several Mowing Machines, and embodies the 

 essential facts needful for a generally correct estimate of their 

 respective merits : 



