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Wheeler's Patent Double Grand Horse Power, mounted, ready to 

 substitute for an engine if desired. Also Wheeler's Patent Vibra- 

 tory Thresher and Cleaner, which is also a model of its kind. Also 

 Melick's Champion Thresher without the Binding attachment. The 

 Eureka Spring Tooth Sulky Harrow, with grain sowing attachment, 

 and the Eagle Horse Rake were also shown by them, the latter in 

 operation. These machines are also well and favorably known in 

 this region. A well made Dog Power on the endless chain principle 

 was also shown. -A very useful machine for large farms, suitable for 

 running churns, grind stones and any light machines. They also 

 showed Tolley's patent and Eureka Cultivator, both excellent tools. 

 Last but not least of this firm's exhibit was the Robinson Hay Press, 

 also in operation. This is a new invention based on a new princi- 

 ple, worked with one horse, easily operated and well adapted for a 

 community of small farmers, especially in our hill towns remote from 

 railroads, where bulky transportation is difficult and wasteful, es- 

 pecially during the winter and spring months, when hay and straw 

 find a market. 



A. W. Gray & Sons of Middletown Springs, Vt., showed their 

 well known double and single Horse Powers and Threshers, not in 

 operation however. 



A variety of Plows, Harrows and Mowing Machines were on ex- 

 hibition, the excellent qualities of which were duly proclaimed by the 

 persons having them in charge. As " seeing is believing," your Com- 

 mittee were more interested in the trials given the Sulky Plows than 

 would have been the case had they not been in operation. Thanks 

 are due to H. P. Lucas, Esq., of Pittsfield, who showed the National 

 Reversible Sulky Plow, made at Chicopee Falls, also the Syracuse 

 Sulky Plow, both of which did good work, and are well adapted to 

 large farms. Also the Daniels Plow Sulky Co., of Albany, N. Y., 

 whose agent showed a Plow Sulky to which any plow can be easily 

 attached. This invention will be of great benefit to New England 

 farmers, who do not cultivate large areas and whose land requires a 

 variety of plows which they may already possess. This sulky can 

 be successfully attached, is of light draft and does effective work as 

 was shown by the trial we witnessed. 



Although not strictly an Agricultural Implement, a good Road 

 Machine, is a great blessing to every rural community, and we were 

 pleased to notice the New Model Champion Road Machine, made by 

 G. W. Taft, Esq., of Abington, Ct. This appears to us to have more 

 good points than any machine of its kind we have seen and we hope 

 it will come into general use in this region. The American and 

 Wonderful Churns, Cooley & Reid Creamerys, Butter Workers and 

 other Dairy Implements were on exhibition, all of which are now too 

 well known and appreciated to require special mention. We also 

 noticed Bliss & Kopp's Patent door Fastening for swing doors, which 

 is an admirable substitute for the cumbrous standard. J. K. Had- 

 sell of Monterey showed a Patent Evaporator, well suited for the 

 maple sugar orchards of Eastern Berkshire, Two Flails, seven Axe 



