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Messrs. William Strong and H. W. Parsons, of Northamp- 

 ton ; John A. Morton, of Hadlcy ; Hager Ayres, of Salem ; 

 PaulT. Winkley, of Newburyport; E. D. L. Bryant, of Ox- 

 ford ; Robert Brookhouse and Samuel A. Merrill, of Salem ; 

 B. Redman, of New Bedford ; J. Wilkinson, of Great Barring- 

 ton; J. D. Wood, of Westminster; and J. P. Adriance, Jr., of 

 Worcester, withdrew from the contest, at diflerent periods of 

 the trial. Some of these, after having cut over some consider- 

 able number of acres, others without having hardly started a 

 machine. 



For reasons which will suggest themselves, the undersigned 

 makes no comment upon the work done by either of these in- 

 dividuals. 



Advantage has been taken by the undersigned of the oppor- 

 tunity he has enjoyed of making examinations of the many 

 fields he has seen in different parts of the State, which have 

 been cut over by mowing machines. 



It is not too much to say, perhaps, that in nearly every in- 

 stance there was greater evidence of bad driving than of bad 

 cutting by the machine. The great enjoyment derived from a 

 hasty examination of the well-ordered farm, and more particu- 

 larly the beautifully shorn fields of Messrs. Waters and R. S. 

 Rogers, of Danvers, will be sufiicient ground to excuse this 

 mention of their names in this report. 



The undersigned was led, from a conversation with Mr. J. P. 

 Adriance, to the belief that the necessary engageilients of that 

 firm were such as would prevent them from carrying out their 

 intention of competing for the above premium, and it was not 

 till the 25th of August, after, (as was supposed,) the labor of 

 examining the work of every competitor had been concluded, 

 that he was informed that the entry of these gentlemen was 

 filled by Mr. Emerson, of Auburn, who had been running a 

 machine in Worcester and the towns adjoining. 



A desire to ma'^.e immediate examination of the work of this 

 competitor was expressed, and an arrangement was made by 

 which the undersigned was to be informed, without delay, of 

 the names of the individuals uj^on whose farms this work had 

 been done. 



From some probably accidental cause, this information was 

 not received, and examination was made only of the ^fields 



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