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The next premium of $ 3, to Payson H. Perrin, of Worcester, 

 Chinese breed. 



The next premium of <$2, to Abram D. Hull, of Worcester, 

 for the next-best barn-yard fowls. 



B, TIFFANY, Chairman. 



Agricultural Implements. 



Many of the articles on exhibition were entered by Ruggles, 

 Nourse and Mason, the well established character of whose 

 manufactures, almost renders unnecessary any more particular 

 notice, than a mere enumeration of the names of their entries. 

 Among their entries were 16 ploughs; different kinds and sizes 

 of their celebrated " Eagle," " Sub-soil," " Side-hill," and " Left- 

 hand " ploughs — with and without wheels, cutters, and draft- 

 rods. 



In the examination of these ploughs, the attention of the com- 

 mittee was particularly drawn to those upon the " self-sharpen- 

 ing" plan ; to the action of the " draft-rods," and to the method 

 of attaching the "cutter" to the plough-beam. This last mat- 

 ter they consider to be a decided improvement upon the old 

 method of attaching the cutter, by a mortise through the beam, 

 inasmuch as it apparently strengthens instead of weakening 

 the beam, and can be raised or lowered with more ease than 

 under the old method. The committee are glad to see that Rug- 

 gles & Co. are daily adding to their well-earned reputation, in 

 the production of excellent ploughs ; and they improve this op- 

 portunity to assent to the opinion so often heretofore given in 

 favor of their superior manufactures. 



Ruggles & Co. also exhibited three "Crowell's patent Ther- 

 mometer Churns." The committee were particularly pleased 

 with these churns, constructed upon true philosophical princi- 

 ples, a thermometer being attached to show the temperature of 

 the cream, and the churn being so constructed as to allow the 

 cream to be nearly surrounded by water heated as desired. 



Benjamin Howard, of West Boylston, entered four churns, of 



