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four to six bushels per hour, and wastes not a kernel." 

 The agent for the thresher also had on exhibition 

 "Hallock's Combined Cross-cut and Circular Saw- 

 mill, . . . made simple and strong, easy to operate 

 and not liable to get out of order.'' U. B. Daley of 

 Salem exhibited "a one-horse clover-picker," while 

 Messrs. Dow and Covert were on hand with their 

 "eight-horse power threshing machine,"" of light 

 draft and run "first by two span, then by a single 

 span, and finally by a single horse." Forsbee's Pat- 

 ent, Cast Iron Cultivator, constructed on the jointed 

 parallelogram principle, costing only ten dollars, 

 had five teeth and a coulter and could be set at va- 

 rious widths. A. D. Hoffman of Belleville had on 

 exhibition "a model of his late patent hand-power 

 cider mill, a new thing," and "one of those ingenious 

 improvements which are objects of interest to every 

 farmer." The machine was built in two sizes, whereby 

 with one "a man can make a barrel of cider in two 

 arid a half hours, with the other two barrels in the 

 same time," and a ten-year-old boy could operate 

 either. "The celebrated Buckeye ]\Iower that carried 

 off the first premium of the TJ. S. Agricultural So- 

 ciety at their trial in Syracuse in 1857, was on ex- 

 hibition." "Cook's Sugar Evaporator" was another 

 "success" of the fair, which "produced the nicest 

 sirup from the cane in al)out thirty minutes." 



Equally notable was the vegetable exhibit. It 

 contained a specimen of the "California pie-melon," 

 which weighed, it was understood, thirty or forty 

 pounds on occasion, "keeps two years without diffi- 



