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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



Oct. 24, 1828. 



load. To Mr Coolidge tlie Committee award 

 twelve dollars. 



Mr Jos. Pope liroui^ht his machine for threah- 

 ing grain, and Cor which he obtained the Society's 



award a ])remiun). 



JoHiV Mears, of Koxbury, presented for premi- 

 nin, a inacliiiie for filling sausages, with which the 

 Inbor is performed with more ease, and more ex- 

 peditiously, than by any machine for that purpose [ premium several years since when worked by 

 now in use. The meat is put into a tin tube about | hand. Mr Pope's object was to show the Com- 

 four inches diameter, and six or eight inches long, j mittee with what ease and advantage it could be 

 forming a cylinder, to tiit bottom of whicli a tin is | worked by horse power ; and for which purpose 

 soldered, forming a tunnel, the lower end of a size; he attached a belt or band from a horse power 

 to receive the sausage case, the meat is discharg- mill, which Mr Newell had put up in the cellar of 

 ed into the sausage case, by a piston, which is the stall for his Grater Cider Mill. The machine 

 moved by a rack and pinion of cast iron. By inoved with great ra|)idity and with perfect ease to 

 means of this a]iparatus, from one i)Ound and an the horse. Air Pope fed the machine with rice 



straw, and it thrashed it with very great despatch 

 and (lerfectly clean, every kernel free from stems 

 and foot-stalks. The Committee think Mr Pope's 

 machine well calculated for thrashing rice, so far 

 as they could judge from this trial of a small quan- 

 tity. They were pleased with Mr Newell's horse 



fighth, to one pound and an half have been filled 

 in one minute. Mr Mears produced certificates 

 of its performance, and the Committee consider- 

 ing it a neat and useful machine, award a premi- 

 um of five dollars. 



Joseph R. Newf.lt, presented for premium a 

 Crater Cider Mill, which he introduced from Troy, I power mill, which is very convenient, not takin 

 State of New York, where it was invented and | so much room as those in general use, and far 

 the patent right secured. Mr Newell has pur- i better than any that either of the Committee have 

 chased the right to make and vend for several seen in operation. 



counties in this state. It has a wooden cylinder! Joseph R., Neweli, entered for premium a re- 

 upon the surface of which nails are fixed, the ' volving Horse Rake, and produced certificates of 

 heads sharp upon the edges, and project above its usefulness in other States. But as some have 

 the cylinder about one eighth of an inch. The ' been in operation in Massachusetts, and no certif- 

 apples are filled into a hopper placed over the 1 icate produced of the manner in which they per- 

 cylinder, and led into a narrow cavity at the up- formed the work, the Committee conld not award 

 per side of it. The cyhnder is mounted on a high a gratuity. 



frame, its axis being placed in composition boxes, I BIr Newell placed in the Hall for public exam- 

 a rapid revolution is produced by connecting it inatinn, Thomas' Hand Garden Winnowing Mill 

 witli a horse mill l)y belts or bands, the apples are for cleaning garden seeds, a lot of japanned wood- 

 reduced to a fine pumice, grated, not pressed. It en Ware, American manufacture — a Fork from 

 ))erformed well in presence of the Committee, and Mr Grieve of West Newbury, for digging or turn- 

 grated a barrel of Russet apples, in one niiniUe ing heavy hard soil, an improved and convenient 

 thirty-four seconds. Certificates were produced , Hand or Counter Scale for weighing, all which he 

 signed by respectable persons in tliis State, some j keeps for sale, with most of the ajjproved agricul- 

 in this neighborhood, and from persons in New \ tural implements, at liis store in Br>ston. 



York and New Jersey, all recommending this mill 

 in very strong terms, some certified that seven 

 bushels of apples usually produced a barrel of ci- 

 der when grated in this mill, and that the quality 

 of the cider was such as to bring, in the New 

 York maiket, four shillings per barrel more, than 

 eider from apples ground in the common mills. — 

 To Mr Newell the Committee award a gratuity of 

 twelve dollars. 



George CoonncE, of Watertown produced a 

 rail road, and canal Earth Cart, invented by 

 and now in use at Lowell ; it was also used la.^t 

 summer in making a road in Kast Sudbury, one 

 man with the Cart excavated and removed on an 



GORHAM PARSONS 

 DANIEL TREAnWELL 

 DAYID MOODY, 

 Brighton, Oct. 15, 1828. 



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Com- 

 mittee. 



The Commitiee. on Fat cattle, Bulls, and bull Calves 



REPORT asfotlou'S, viz. 

 To Benjamin Harrington, of Princeton, for 

 his Ox, weight, 2,500 lbs. they award 

 the first premium - - - - $2.5 00 



lim i To Gen. Salem Towne, for his Ox, weight 

 2,237 pounds, from imported hull llold- 

 erness, they award the second premium 20 00 

 o Nathan Slade, of Somerset, for his Ox, 



average, ten square or four liunilred thirty-two cu- j wi ight 2,315 pounds, they award the 



bic feet of earth per day. At Lowell the Carts | third premium. - - - - 10 00 



arc moved by horse power ; and in digaing a ca- To Ichabod Stow, of Stow, for hisBull, two 



nal, one horse in eleven hours removed ten squares years and six months old, weight 1,800 



of earth two hinidred and sixteen feet to the j ponnds, they award the first premium 30 00 



square, carrying the earth one hundred rods — at , To Lincoln Brigham, of Cambridge, for his 



the same place three hor.ses in one day removed ' Bull, weight 1,176 lbs. they award the 



thirty squares measuring six thousand fbur hund- [ second premium - ' - - - 20 00, 



red and eighty feet — or three hundred and fifty To B. P. Williams, of Roxbury, for his Bull, 



BuUCalf five months old, dam from Den- 

 ton, they award the second premium - 1,5 00 

 To Nath'l. B. Vose, of Boston, for his Bull 

 Calf, five months old, they award the 

 third premium - - - - - 5 00 



Mr. Sam'l. Sweetser, of Athol, county of Wor- 

 cester, entered a very fine Ox, fatted on hay and 

 grass, with a few potatos in winter ; he was not 

 large, but very fat — was considered a profitable 

 ajiimal for slaughter, and fatted at a very moder- 

 ate expense. He would have received a premium, 

 but having been pm-chased by Mr. Winchester, 

 (one of the Committee,) previous to the show, he 

 insisted from motives of delicacy, that a premium 

 should not be awarded Mr. Sweetser ; observing 

 it was worth the premium to e.xhibit an ox so 

 handsomely and economically fatted. 



The Committee coukl not but observe with 

 pleasure, the six pens filled with fine cattle, by J. 

 Estabrook, Esq. of Athol. Mr. Boylston's milch 

 cows and fat cattle, and many others wjj^ch could 

 not fail to show a great improvement in neat 

 stock. The Committee are fully satisfied the pens 

 were filled with as many, and certainly as good 

 cattle as at any exhibition since the commence- 

 ment of cattle shows at Brighton. 

 GORHAM PARSONS, 

 TIMOTHY WALKER, ). Committee 



EDMUND WINCHESTER, 

 Brighton, Oct. I5th, 1828. 



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tons ; for the same work, at the same place, it re- 

 quired twenty-four yoke of oxen and twelve driv- 

 ers. Mr Coolidge uses a temporary rail-way, as 

 he terms it, made of pine or spruce plank 2 ii.ehcs 

 thick, and in his written statement says one man 

 with his cart can remove more earth in one day, 

 than a man with a cart and four o:;cn can drive 

 twenty rods and discharge in the same time. • The 

 body of the cart examined by the Committee will 

 hold ten or twelve cubic feet ; it is formed under 

 the axle, and the l)ottom opens to discharge the 



thirteen months and ten days old, from 

 an improved cow, by imported bull Ad- 

 miral, weighed, on the 6th of Sept. 657 

 pounds — on the 11th October 845 — in 

 thirty-eight days increased 188 pounds, 

 they award the third premium - - 10 00 



To Benjamin Harrington, of Princeton, for 

 his Bull Calf, six and a half months old, 

 of the Holderness breed, they award the 

 first premium - - - - -15 00 



To John L. Boylston, of Pripceton, for his 



The Comm,ittee on Agricultural Erperiments, to 

 whom the inspection of Butter, Cheese, and Cider ex- 

 hibited for premium, was also committed, report 



That fifteen parcels of butter were entered on 

 the books of the Secretary of the Show, for pre- 

 mium ; of these, eleven parcels containing from 3 

 to 400 ponnds each, were exhibited for the pre- 

 mium of .filOO, which the Trustees of the Society 

 were enabled, hy the subscriptions of a number of 

 respectable citizens of Boston, and its vicinity, to 

 offer to farmers residing within the New England 

 States, in onler to encourage improvement in tb« 

 quality of butter brought for sale to the Boston 

 market. The most part of the butter exhibited, 

 was well made, of a good flavor, and evidenced 

 unusual attention, both in the manufacturing, and 

 packing of it. The Coimnittee award said pre- 

 mium of .$100 to Mr. Jeilm L. Boylston, of Prince- 

 ton, in the county of Worcester. This butter is 

 jjacked in 8nevv firkins, made of hard wood, con- 

 taining about 50 lbs. each. In colour, taste, ab- 

 sence of butteniiilk, and of all foreign aids, it may 

 be pronounced to he equal to the best imported, 

 and much famed Irish butter. 



The Committee award the Society's premium 

 of $15 for the best 50 lbs. of butter in boxes to Mr 

 Michael Crosby, of Bedford. For the next best, 

 $\0 to Mr Luther Chamberlain, of Westliorough. 

 This butter is of an excellent quality, and flavor, 

 not being packed according to the views of the 

 gentlemen offering the premium of $100, but in 

 small jars, proper only for the retail market ; and 

 lieing offered for that premium, and also for the 

 Society's premium, which of itself required 50 lbs. 

 The quantity exhibited was not sufficient to enti- 

 tle Mr. Chamberlain. to the first premium, had all 

 ither circumstances have been favorable. For 

 he next best butter, the premium of $7 is award- 

 id to Mr Jonathan Wait, of Whately, in the couii- 

 y of Franklin. 



Six parcels of cheese, not less than one year 

 •Id — and sixteen parcels of cheese, of the present 



