AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM IS"? 



For die third best specimen, of 20 yaids, 40 dollars. 



The premiums to be adjudged by the judges of the 

 court of common pleas in the different counties, on the 3d 

 Tuesday in January; and proof is to be exhibited that 

 the specimens were carded, spun and wove in the county^ 

 Pieces of at least a quarter of a yard from the prize spe- 

 cimens of each county, are to be forwarded to the society 

 for the promotion of useful arts. Persons may be candi- 

 dates for the state premiums for family manufactures, 

 Avithout being so for the county premiums ; provided they 

 exhibit to the society whole pieces of cloth. The socie* 

 ty will determine on the first, second, and third best spe- 

 cimens thus exhibited, and adjudge to the owners the fol- 

 lowing premiums, each in a piece of plate with suitable 

 inscriptions, viz. 



For the best specimen, ninety dollars. 



For t!ie second best specimen, eighty dollars. 



And for the third best specimen, seventy dollars. 



No person to be entitled in any one year to more than 

 one county premium. The act is limited to one year* 



A Description of Smith ^- Drinker's Manufactory 

 of Cotton Twist, on Four Mile Run. in the District 

 of Columbia, begun the 1st of jipril, 1810. 

 The building is of brick 30 by 33 feet. On the ground 

 floor are worked one cotton breaker and two finishers 

 single geared with eight flat cards covering one foui th of 

 their principal cylinders. They are turned by water, 

 have a leathern band passing over a large drum or bar 

 rel extending lengthwise of the hpuse twelve feet; this 

 drum gives motion to the whole machinery cf the factory. 

 On the same floor a-.c four drawing heads, and four 

 roving heads, with cans, barting frames, &c. capable of 

 carding, drawing, and roving 150 to 180 pounds of cot- 

 ton per week. This department requires one man and 

 ^hree boys to attend it. 



On the second floor are two frames of spindles; one 

 has 9f>^ the other 12. They may be turned, with safetv 



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