346 NORFOLK SOCIETY. 



Agricultural Implements. 

 There are in the county, manufactories of hoes and forks, 

 producing, it is believed, the best articles of the kind in the 

 world. Not a single article of Norfolk county manufacture was 

 entered for exhibition. This is, probably, partly owing to the 

 fact referred to in our report last year, that the articles exhib- 

 ited the previous year, received no notice from the committee ; 

 but perhaps more to the fact, that the society is understood to 

 offer premiums only for " new agricultural implements ;" that 

 is, for new inventions. The committee suggest that this re- 

 striction upon the action of the committee for the next year, be 

 removed. The society offer premiums for the best fruits, the 

 best vegetables, without requiring that they should be new va- 

 rieties. The offer of premiums for the best agricultural imple- 

 ments, would undoubtedly invite competition and secure a fuller 

 exhibition. It is hardly creditable, that an exhibition, second 

 to that of hardly any county in the State for agricultural pro- 

 ducts, should be entirely without agricultural implements. The 

 only exhibitors in this department, were Messrs. Prouty & 

 Mears ; and the articles entered, were two hay-cutters, two 

 churns, one cultivator, and three ploughs. 



F. W. BIRD. Chairman. 



