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by stones and stumps, and other ini})edinienis tliat wonld inter- 

 fere with the wide and rapid sweep of tlie instrument. 



A report of the trial, by one of the committee, was jmblished 

 at the time, in one of the county newspapers, the Dcdham Ga- 

 zette, which, being supposed to convey, in brio!', the general 

 impressions of the committee, is inserted, as follows, as a part 

 of this rejiort : — 



The Mo\ving Exhibition. — The first public trial, or contest, 

 for the premium oflercd by the Massachusetts Society for the 

 Promotion of Agriculture, for the best experiment in mowing 

 with machines worked by horse or ox power, was held at Ded- 

 ham on Tuesday last. A very respectable concourse of i)eople 

 assembled to witness it, hut not half as large as the rarity of 

 the exhibition and the importance and value of the invention 

 warranted. Something of this deficiency was owing probably 

 to want of information. A few small circulars had been dis- 

 tributed among distinguished farmers, which amounted to 

 almost nothing, as })ublic notice, and the advertisements and 

 communications in the county papers, so far as a considerable 

 portion of the inhabitants were concerned, might have as well 

 been printed in Kamtschatka. Some gentlemen from Worces- 

 ter and Essex, interested in agricultural pursuits, were present, 

 and contributed much to the interest of the occasion. The fol- 

 lowing are the entries for the premium of the Massachusetts 

 Society : — 



W. T. G. Morton, of Needham, S. Allen's patent. 



Fiske Russell, of Boston, his own patent. 



James A. Howe, of Boston, Ketchum's patent. 



John Dean, Dedham, Ketchum's patent. 



Alvan J. Fisher, Dedham, same patent, single horse. 



J. P. Adriancc <fc Co., Worcester, Manny's patent, four feet 

 cutter. 



J. P. Adriancc k Co., Worcester, Manny's patent, single 

 horse. 



J. P. Adriancc & Co., Manny's patent, four feet eight inch 

 cutter. 



Hiram W. Jones, Dover, Ketchum's patent. 



Mr. Eaton, of Dedham, entered and operated one of Ketch- 

 um's machines, for exhibition, and not for premium. 



