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to labor, be it early or late, or strike for higher wages when 

 labor is scarce. 



There is, we regret to say, one great drawback to the general 

 introduction of farm machines ; we mean their cost. The price 

 of many of the patented articles is so high as almost to exclude 

 the use of them to owners of small farms ; the price of the corn- 

 sheller exhibited to-day is $15. With this machine a child six 

 years old could shell, by way of amusement, all the corn con- 

 sumed by any farmer in the county of Essex in a year. It is a 

 very simple machine, and ought to be sold for not more than 

 two-thirds its present price. So of the horse-hoeing machine 

 exhibited by Mr. Ware, a most useful labor-saving machine, 

 and one which would be worthy the attention of every farmer, 

 provided the manufacturer would offer it at a reasonable price. 



E. S. Williams, Chairman. 



WORCESTER. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



Among the prominent machines exhibited is Bolles' Patent 

 Rock and Stump Puller, manufactured by Nourse, Mason & Co. 

 Your Committee had the pleasure of witnessing its operation, 

 upon the farm of John Hammond, Esq., near the society's 

 grounds, and were much interested in the exhibition of its 

 power, and the ease with which it lifted large rocks from out of 

 the ground ; and they are fully of opinion that it is decidedly 

 one of the improvements of the age, and cheerfully recommend 

 it to farmers and others, as a powerful assistant in the work 

 for which it is designed. They also exhibit a Stump Puller, 

 Kinney's patent, which, though simple in its operation, is a 

 powerful machine. 



William A. Wheeler, Chairman. 



HAMPSHIRE, FRANKLIN AND HAMPDEN. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



William R. Clapp, of Northampton, showed three sizes of 



Rotary Harrows, which the farmers will do well to examine. 



The testimony of those who had used the harrow, convinced 



the committee that they are a very decided improvement in 



