NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



on, and is very powerfully reCotnincnde*! 



IiJr. U'arreo, of Boston, and others, ioT the 

 sing of persons, whose limbs aie fractured, 

 lile in bed, »vith gt-eatease and safety. While 

 ur Committee consider it a machine of great 

 actical utility in hospitals and sick chanibor'', 

 sy deem it not within the objects or power of 

 s Society to award to it a premium. 

 Various as^ricultural machines were presented 

 exhibition only — among tiiose your Commit- 

 particularly notice Ml', i'ope^s llireshing 

 ichine, which on a former year oblnilied the 

 iety's premium. It has been since improv- 

 and now can thresh, m it is slated, with a 

 I power and the assistance of three men, 

 m eight to ten bushels of grain per hour — 

 enlarged, to the application of a horse pow- 

 will thresh per hour, from ten to liftcen 

 hels of wheat, and iVom tilleen to twenty of 

 or oats. 

 Messrs. Lincoln Fearing &, Co. also present^ 

 lor exhibition a variety of agricultural im- 

 ments, consisting of forks, ploughs, Eastman's 

 w cutter, from Baltimore, and Curtis's churn, 

 m Connecticut ; all of tlipm to be found in 

 ir excellent and extensive collection of ag- 

 jltural implements in Boston, and all ma- 

 nes of dilTerent degrees of merit, the partic- 

 of which your Committee did not deem 

 mselves called upon to estimate. They can- 

 fail, however, to express their gratilicaticin 

 he particular exertions of Messrs. Lincoln 

 iring &, Co. as well as at the general evi- 

 ce of the incre-asing attention of the commu- 

 to implements tending to improve and to 

 iten the labors of agriculture. 



■JOSIAH QUINGY, 

 CYRUS ALGER, 

 PAUL MOODY. 



REPORT No. IV. 



Brighton, Oct. 16, 1S23. 

 'he Committee on Manufactures award 

 James Sliepherd &: Co. of Northampton, for tile 

 :st specimen of Broatlclotb, §20 



-later & Howard, of Oxford, for the next lirst ^5 

 Thomas Dedman, of Templeton, for the best 

 ecimen of WooUea Cloth, of household manu- 

 ;ture, 12 



.Jeorge M. Barrett, of Concord, for the next 



James Shepherd & Co. of Northampton, for 



e best specimen of Cassimerc, 



he VVolcott Woollen Manufacturing Company, 



the next best, 



lincoln Burr, of Hingham, for a piece of Ker- 

 y, 2d premium, 



ilessrs. Pomroy k. Clapp, of Pittsfield, for the 

 st sp(c'imen of Sattinet, 



■eth Beniis & Co. of W atertown, for the next 

 st, 



Jrs. Stephen Fay, of New Braintree, for the 

 st specimen of household Flannel, 

 ouathan Wilder, of Sterling, for the next best, 

 ^phraim Coburu, of Dracut, for the best speci- 

 >n of Linen Diaper, 

 Jideon Delano, of New Braiiitree, for a piece 



Linen Cloth, 



ohn Hunter, of New Braintree, for the best 

 ecimen of Floor Carpeting, 

 Joshua Melville, of Concord, for the next 



U 

 Jenjamin Poor, of Nt wbnryport, for the best 

 pce of Stair Carpeting, 



Theodosia Converse, for a specimen of fine 

 ankets, 

 inna Buckman, of Tewksbury, for a specimen 



Linen Diaper Table Cloths, Worsted Stock- 

 ji and Work Basket (as a gratuity) 



Also to Polly Leiand for a piece of Cotton Diaper, 6 

 'to P. Sanford and brother, of Medway, for a spe* 



cinieu of fine Cotton Thread, 5 



1 o Klizabeth Cowan, of Boston, for a specimen of 



1 bread Lace, 3 



To Ann llealh, of Roxbury, for 13 pair of Cotton 



Stockings, 5 



To Mary Ann Plimi>lon, of Medfield, for a Straw 



Bonnet, <1 



To Oliva Stanley, of Dracut, for do. J 



To Eunice Danforth, of Norton, for two extra Fine 



Straw Bonnets, 5 



To Martha Hapgood, of Shrewsbury, for a Bonnet, 2 

 To l.avina Sweel, of Foxboro,' for a Bonnet made 



frorii the hnsks of corn, 3 



To M. W. K. of Boston, for a Cotton Counterpane Ct 

 'I'o Misses Baxters, of (^uincy, for a Hearth Rug, 3 

 To Sarah Cushing, of Doichesler, for a Rug, 3 



To Jane Coburn, of Dracut, for do. 2 



To Betsey and Mary MiuirOe, of Lincoln, for two 



Hearth nugs, each, 2 



To Caroline Cutting, of E. Sudbury, for do. 2 



To Mehitable Dean, of MansfieUl, for do. 2 



To Louisa Clark, of Boston, for fin. 'j 



'Co SuSSnnah Whiting, of Cambridge, for do. 2 



To Anna Bemis, of Wntertown, for do. 3 



To Mary B. Converse, of New Braintree, for do. 2 

 To Mrs. F.iljah Warren, of Leicester, for do. 2 



To Catharine Picrson, for 3 pair of fine Worsted 



I^se, 2 



To Hannah Hawks, of Sterling, for do. 2 



To Frances-, Nancy, Elizabeth and Abiel Wheeler, 



of Worcester, for a specimen of Artificial Flow- 

 ers, exhibited as the work of young children, 



each, 2 



To John Thoreau k Co. for a specimen of Lead 



Pencils, manufactured frota Plumbago, native of 



this country, 5 



To Marian R. Haven, of Ilopbinton, for 2 Straw 



Bonnets and Calash of Straw .] 



To Sarah Pollock, of Canton, for a Grass Bonnet, 4 

 To Susan Whitney, of Dedham, for do. 2 



To Abigail Goodale, of West Boylston, for wrought 



Buttons and Frogs, 2 



To Nancy Wheeler, of Worcester, for Tippets of 



Tuikoy Down, 2 



A Bonnet from Plymouth, made of white pa- 

 per, was considered by the Committee a curious 

 Hhd ingenious article, but they dolibted whether 

 it could fe sufliciently serviceable to merit en- 

 couragement. 



The number and r.monut of premiums on 

 Factory Goods having been diminished since 

 the last year, in favor of housfehold fabrics, fac- 

 tory Flannels were not a subject of premium 

 the present year. 



The best of the specimens sent for exhibition, 

 from the Arnesbury Flannel manufactory, were 

 very fine and of excellent materials, and in all 

 respects well finished. There were pieces o( 

 dilTerent qualities, but all creditable to the Com- 

 pany. 



The Committee can say no less of the six 

 pieces exhibited by Mr. James Ho worth from 

 his Factory at Andover. 



The four pieces from the Salisbury AVoollen 

 Manufactory were substantial goods, but not in a 

 finished style. 



Many of the specimens of Household Industry, 

 exhibiting a commendable taste, ingenuity and 

 skill, are not rew.-irded by gratuities, not because 

 they were undeserving this distinction for any 

 deficiency in the qualities mentioned, but be- 

 cause it was necessary to put a limit somew here 

 to this kind of reward — the Committee have 

 therefore conferred it on some of the most tjse- 

 ful articles only. Much praise, however, is due 

 to Miss RIerrill, of Salisbury, for a parcel of 

 fine Linen Thread— to Hannah Edson, of Hard- 

 wick, for Worsted Socks — to a Lady, of I'ly- 

 mouth, for a Paper Bonnet— to T. P, Meriara, of 



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Concord, for a specimen of Slocking Yarn and ii 

 pair of Socks— to Mrs. Robinson, of Worcester, 

 for Stockings and Socks, and to Mary Adams, 

 tor a specimen of good Carpeting. 



The pieces of Calico from the Charloslown 

 Blcachery (a recent establishment) were 

 thought by the Conimillee to be excellent 

 goods, and far preferable fur durability to Eng- 

 lish calicoes of the same description. 



A very fine Beaver Hat was exhibited 1>v 

 Mrssi-s. Dikcman SiSliepard, 6f Northampton. 

 The committee cotild conceive ol no improve- 

 ment beyond it. 



The case of Hals, from the Boston 3Ianufac- 

 tiiriiig Company, were of (he fir-^t quality of 

 gentleman's hats. This Company have in for* 

 mer years deserved an<l received the commen- 

 dation of the Committee on Mannl'actures, 

 whose favorable judgment has been conilrmed 

 by the [iuhlic. It is understood that the imjior- 

 tation of men's hats, even of the best qualities, 

 is now very small. 



The two parcels of S il Cloth, one by Mr. 

 George B, Chase, of Salem, the other by Mr. 

 George Johnson, of Cambridgcporl, were pro- 

 nounced by competent judges to be without 

 lault, and these gentlemen have therefore se- 

 cured to themselves a good prospect ot the pub- 

 lic patronage. 



Four p.eces of black rroadcloth, oiTered foi- 

 exhibition only by the Wolcott Woollen Manu- 

 lacturing Company, were very creditable to 

 the makers, and with a little more skill in the 

 finishing would have approached very nearly 

 to those which obtained the first premium. 



The best of the Broadcloths, Cassimeres, and 

 Sattinets, were much superior, in all respects, 

 to the same quality of goods exhibited at Brigh- 

 ton in any previous year. 



RICHARD SULLIVAN, Chairman. 

 EDWARD TUCKERMAN, 

 JOHN LEMIST. 



Important Disccvcry. — A man by the name ot 

 Danitl Hawley, who has been a school teacher 

 in Carmel, N. Y. and its vicinity tor about six- 

 teen years past, and established a good charac- 

 ter, has lately invented a new construction of 

 materials, which with the loadstone, will attract 

 and draw steel, and which \vill not continue, 

 but is immediately repelled the contrary way 

 and jiasses the load stone. Such an operation 

 by the magnet has always, by the great, been 

 considered to be impossible, which now may be 

 thought to be no more of a miracle than fiction. 

 As the operation has the ai)|)earance of a real 

 perpetual moving wheel, which, when finished, 

 it is thought can be applied eft'ectually to boats 

 on canal.s, and lor raising water, and to many 

 other advantageous machineries. Having seen 

 the operation on water, and not knowing why 

 it has not heretofore been carried into execution, 

 we are led to suspect that necessary means has 

 in a great degree, prevented the inventor from 

 accomplishing his design 'n this great philosoph- 

 >al and important discovery ; and were this 

 to be the case, we think that immediate assist- 

 ance should be rendered him, as we understand 

 that his earnings for many years past, have de- 

 frayed the expenses up to the present time. It 

 may be here observed, that he has invented some- 

 thitig that will flop the force of attraction, which 

 surpasses the knowledge of all j)hilosjphicaJ 

 discoveries. — A''. Y. Spectator. 



