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being of the State than the thousand and one schemes offerep 

 by sagacious politicians for the same purpose. 



Hitherto, the success of a machine has depended too much 

 upon the man who has managed it. We want such machines 

 as common farm laborers can operate. We are neither able nor 

 willing to hire mechanics to cut our grass. If done at all, it 

 must be by the ordinary help of the farm, and whenever manu- 

 facturers shall furnish us with good, practicable machines, proved 

 to be such, at reasonable prices, they may be sure of an exten- 

 sive demand for them. 



Theo. G. Huntington, Chairman. 



NORFOLK. 



Report of the Committee. 



The committee on Agricultural Implements have to report 

 nothing new as on exhibition at the cattle show, in this depart- 

 ment, although there was quite a number of specimens of those 

 long familiar implements — the most essential in the work of 

 agriculture — which serve to illustrate the improvement and 

 progress made in this branch of the science. 



The committee, in former reports, have remarked on the pe- 

 culiarities of our condition in New England, in regard to agri- 

 cultural implements, as contrasted with the Middle and Western 

 States. Our uneven and rocky soil, as a general characteristic, 

 forbids the use of many of those labor-saving machines which 

 inventive genius is ever ready to create to the demand of neces- 

 sity and profit ; and hence the narrower limit to which our show 

 of implements is confined — so different from the extensive vari- 

 ety and the constant multiplication of new designs, adapted to 

 the execution of almost every description of agricultural labor, 

 as is seen, for example, at the exhibitions -in the State of New 

 York. 



This statement is not made in the spirit of complaint at the 

 scantiness of the articles exhibited at our exhibitions ; although 

 we believe that a public spirit, which should afford an extensive 

 display of those splendid specimens of mechanical skill and 

 ingenuity, which, in our day — so widely different from former 

 times — are displayed in agricultural implements, would be am- 



