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amount of which is less than five cents an acre to grass cut — 

 see the statements annexed, which are to be published in full, 

 as speaking more instructively than any description in the 

 power of the committee to give. They tell the story of the 

 operation in a reliable and natural way. 



The special premiums accruing from the funds given by R. 

 S. Fay, Esq., of Lynn, one of the Vice Presidents of the Soci- 

 ety, were, by his consent, stated as follows, viz: — 



1. For the best and most satisfactory experiment with a 

 mowing machine, operated by two-horse power, on not less than 

 fifty acres, on any farm or farms within the county, $50. 



2. For the best and most satisfactory experiment with a mow- 

 ing machine, operated by one-horse power, on not less than 

 twenty-five acres, on any farm or farms within the county, $25. 



These were the only premiums offered for work to be done. 



There was no competition for the second premium — one im- 

 plement of the kind having been brought to the notice of the 

 committee, and this operating for a short time only. 



At a special meeting of the committee, on the 13th of Octo- 

 ber, all present, except Messrs. Duncan and Sutton, it was de- 

 termined, with a united voice, that the experiments presented 

 demanded the award of the first premium offered. Whereupon, 

 after a careful examination of the statements, and a free discus- 

 sion of all the points presented, it was determined by a vote of 

 a major part of those present, (the chairman, in conformity with 

 the vote of the trustees, expressing no opinion,) that the pre- 

 mium of $50 be awarded to William F. Porter, of Bradford. 



In making this award for the work done only, the committee 

 wish it to be distinctly understood that they do not intend in 

 any manner to give a preference for one machine over the other, 

 — because they do not feel themselves sufficiently informed as 

 to the principles involved in the structure and operation of the 

 machines to express such a preference. They indulge the 

 hope that it will, ere long, be in the power of the makers to 

 make them more complete, both as to the quality of the mate- 

 rials and the manner in which they are put together. Not- 

 withstanding the satisfaction they have experienced in witness- 

 ing the work done, they are constrained to say, that the acci- 

 dental injuries have been so many, and so oft-occurring, that 



