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Churns. — We award the premium to Tyler's Patent Churn. This 

 has been sometime in use, and we believe all who have used it give 

 it the preference. 



Ox Yokes. — An instrument of this description was presented by 

 Blake, Barnard & Co., the beauty and comfort of which must be 

 appreciated by the patient animal for which it is designed, if he has a 

 tithe of the good taste, which he has of patience and perseverance. It 

 must be comparatively a pleasure to wear such a yoke. 



Thresher and Grain Cleaner. — This is a complicated imple- 

 ment, and performs several distinct operations simultaneously. It is 

 precisely one of those machines that suggest to us the want of a farm 

 steam engine, and we understand that a similar implement, or at 

 least, one that does similar work, is driven by an engine in several 

 places at the west. This machine affords evidence of much thought 

 and ingenuity, and in the grain growing sections of the country, must 

 be of inestimable value. 



Best Pump for Farm Use. — An ingenious pump, which acts 

 both as a suction and force pump, was presented by Blake, Barnard 

 &, Co. The piston of this pump works horizontally. It works easily, 

 and does not seem likely to get out of gear. The valves consist of 

 India rubber balls, instead of the common clapper. It is easily pro- 

 tected from the frost. We think the inventor must have seen Lewis' 

 or Davidson's Syringes, for it is, in fact, an iron syringe applied to 

 the moving of water. We think it will prove an implement of great 

 value. It may be used for all the purposes of a garden engine. 



Miscellaneous Articles. — In addition to the articles we have 

 enumerated, there was a legion which we have not enumerated, 

 besides a long list of miscellaneous articles, which were referred to 

 another committee, all which afford proof of the ingenuity of their 

 inventors, and the skill of their manufacturers. Many of them are 

 instruments of much value, and they all afford evidence, if indeed that 

 were not already a fact of world wide notoriety, of the versatility of 

 Yankee intellect. 



In closing their report upon this department of the exhibition, your 

 committee remark, with much pleasure, that they Avere seldom 

 annoyed by the pertinacity of exhibitors, who insisted upon demand- 

 ing for their individual articles an undue proportion of their time and 

 attention. They were uniformly treated with polite regard, all their 

 inquiries were definitely answered, and all their requests complied 



