602 ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 



The committee are much gratified at the continued improve- 

 ment being made in the manufacture of steam engines and boilers, 

 especially adapted to the use of farmers, and think that the day 

 is not far distant when the steam engine will be considered as 

 secondary only to the plow. 



CHAS. VAN BENTHUYSEN, Albany, Chairman. 



" Rotary Digger or Terracultor," entered by 0. C. Evans, of 

 Ohio. A special committee, Hon. A. B. Conger, Hon. Geo. Ged- 

 des, Hon. Geo. Brayton, was appointed to examine the above 

 machine, and the same was tested in a field adjoining the show 

 grounds. This is a new implement, designed instead of the 

 plow, to prepare the ground for the farmer and it is hoped 

 may be made available for the use of the practical farmer. 

 The machine was drawn by two yoke of oxen, and operated upon 

 the ground to the depth of nine inches, and in a belt of about 

 four feet in width. 



No. 52. MACHINERY. 



J. & G. Lord & Co., Watertown, best cast steel plow, S. Med. 



Wm. Deering, Albany, best hay press, S. Med. 



R. H. Pease, Albany, best horse power, S. Med. 



A. Meneely's Sons, West Troy, best chime of bells, Dip. 



Jones & Hitchcock, Troy, best church bell, Dip. 



A. Meneely's Sons, West Troy, best steamboat bell, Dip. 



do do best locomotive bell, Dip. 



Otis & Yale, Watertown, best hydraulic ram, S. Med. 



J. & G. Lord& Co., Watertown, best collection and assort- 

 ment of plows in use, _ Dip. and S. Med. 



Isaac Wait, Pamelia, Jefferson county. Van Valkenburgh's 

 rotary grain separator,. _ Dip. 



D. R. Cook, Brownville, Jefterson county, cast iron roofing, S. S.M. 



N. B. Lord, Brownville, Jefferson county. Turbine water 

 wheel, — - S. S. M. 



J. H. Jones, Rockton, HI., corn planting machine, S. S. M. 



Amos Philips, Copenhagen, Lewis county, steel plow,__ S. S. M. 



Samuel Hurlbut, Ogdensburgh, plow, convex mold board and 

 spring draft attached, _ Dip. 



A. Kendall, Cleveland, Ohio, Kendall's double acting shingle 

 machine, _ _ — Dip. 



A. H. Robbins, Copenhagen, Lewis county, seed planter,. .Trans 



