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gentlemen both in appearance and manners, and were thorough- 

 ly trained to their business. So, too, were those Ijcautiful ani- 

 mals which, after performing an extra quantity of labor on and 

 oft' the field, were permitted to be attached to all the other 

 machines that had entered for premiums, and to be guided l)y 

 strange drivers, in order that a system of trial might bo adopted 

 which would prevent them and others from gaining credit to their 

 machines, on the ground of the efficiency and training of their 

 teams and drivers. On a close examination, however, of the 

 work after raking, it was found that it was just about on a 

 parallel with the work of the machines of the Ketchum patent, 

 when on their good behavior, but with a narrower cut, in two 

 swaths of about eight inches. 



Scene the Second. — Each of the teams and machines, as 

 al)0ve, one after another, proceeded to cut a double swath 

 through the field, a distance of more than forty rods. The 

 general characteristics exhibited at this trial were not widely 

 difierent from those presented in the former trial. It may, 

 however, be stated, that it was in this experiment that the Rus- 

 sell machine, although unfortunate at the start, made the best 

 work of any machine on the ground during the day. 



Third Scene — A trial of the Single-horse Machines. — Ma- 

 chines of this character were present, of the Ketchum, Manny, 

 and Russell patents. Tlic cutters, being more limited than 

 those attached to the two-horse machine, served to obstruct, to 

 some extent, that easy play and freedom of action, which char- 

 acterized the larger machines. Although they did not seem to 

 execute much more than half as much as the larger machines, 

 they seemed to require two-thirds as much power to drag them. 

 The result was, according to our ol)servation, tliat while, previ- 

 ous to the trial of the single machines, there was a general de- 

 sire to see their performance, after it was concluded there was 

 an equally general disappointment. Wlien the machines shajll 

 have become perfected, as they will be in tlie course of years, 

 a single horse will be able to manage them in a manner that 

 will satisfy such expectations as were last Tuesday aroused, 

 only to be disappointed. 



Fourth Scene. — The beautiful and well-trained horses of 

 Adriance & Co. were successively harnessed to the several com- 

 peting machines, and made a bout under the hand of the vari- 



