ON IMPROVED AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 71 



ON IMPROVED AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 



The Committee on Improved Agricultural Implements have 

 attended to that duty, and Report : 



That very few articles were presented either for premium or 

 exhibition. There were in the room two ploughs from the Mil- 

 ford, (N. H.,) Manufactory, placed there, as the Committee sup- 

 pose, by William Chase, of Salem, as his card was attached to 

 them, but there Avas no person present to describe the improve- 

 ment, or to explain their superiority. The committee would 

 however say that they were very handsome and well made, 

 and have no doubt they were very good ploughs. There were 

 also some stove castings, and a cast iron boiler, with the same 

 card attached, very fine specimens of castings, but no person 

 present to give any explanation whatever. 



W. J. Poor, of Andover, presented what is called a Self-ad- 

 justing Ox-Yoke, a very handsome specimen of workmanship, 

 but as Mr. Poor was not the inventor, but only the maker, the 

 committee cannot, according to the rules of the Society, recom- 

 mend any premium or gratuity. 



Stephen Granville, of Danvers, presented anew washing ma- 

 chine, invented by himself, which the committee believe, from 

 what they saw of its operation, to be a very good article, if not 

 the best now in use, and they would recommend that there be 

 paid to Mr. Granville a gratuity of three dollars. 



David Stiles, of Middleton, presented a machine for cutting 

 hay, &c., called the " Eagle Hay Cutter," for which he has 

 recently obtained a patent. The committee were very much 

 gratified with its operation in cutting hay, corn stalks, &c.,and 

 believe it equal to, if not the very best article of the kind, that 

 has ever come under their observation, and they cannot express 

 their own views of the machine in any better form than is ex- 

 pressed in an article headed, " Stiles' Patent Eagle Hay 

 Cutter," and published in the " Farmer and Mechanic," a 

 paper published in the city of New York, and from which arti- 

 cle they make the following extract : " In this machine the in- 

 ventor entertains the most entire confidence, and considers its 

 advantages over all other kinds now in use, as entitling it to 



