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sons with horses and carriages and on horseback, be prohibited 

 the use of the track, under any pretense and for any purpose 

 whatever, during the days of the show, except by special per- 

 mission of the track superintendent. 



Household Manufactures. 

 There were many articles which your committee would be 

 glad to notice separately, but space and time are not allowed 

 to do so. They would say in general terms, however, that this 

 department was well represented by articles of great merit, 

 many of which displayed an amount of taste, skill and industry, 

 on tlic part of tlie women of this society, worthy of all praise, 

 and which your committee hope to see emulated in all coming 

 time. But there were two specimens of work which we cannot 

 allow to pass without specific notice. The one is of a skein of 

 yarn and a pair of stockings, spun and knit by a lady ninety- 

 one years old ; and a pair of mittens, spun, colored and knit by 

 a lady eighty-one years old. These samples of manufacture 

 cannot be easily improved, and it is to be hoped the young will 

 be provoked to good works by these examples. 



Miscellaneous Articles. 

 We cannot refrain from calling the attention of everyhody 

 to the '•' Galvanized Iron Portable Ovens," manufactured by II. 

 S. Stevens & Co., South Paris, and commending them to every 

 family in the county. Five sizes of the oven were on exhibition, 

 from No. two to six, inclusive. The materials of which they are 

 made, are good, and the mechanical work well done. But these 

 arc its most insignificant merits. It is emphatically what its 

 name purports, an oven. In its form it is very nearly a cube. 

 The walls of the oven are made of a metallic non-conductor, 

 with air chambers, so that no heat is lost by radiation, which 

 fact not only renders it a most convenient apparatus to be used 

 in hot weather, but in an economical ^oint of view saves all the 

 heat generated by the very small quantity of fuel, while in 



