BERKSHIRE SOCIETY. 361 



Agricultural and Mechanical Implements. 



The committee on agricultural and mechanical implements, 

 report the following awards: — 



To S. Reed & Co., of Pittsfield, for a fine display 



of agricultural implements, ^3 00 



To William K. Gates, of Lee, for spades, forks, &c., 



of great finish, 2 00 



To John Webb, of Pittsfield, for a lot of joiners' 

 planes and moulding tools, of superior workman- 

 ship, 3 00 



To William H. Warner, of Richmond, for a washing 



machine, 5 00 



These washing machines promise to be to the labors of the 

 good housewife, what steam is to navigation. While the latter 

 annihilates time and distance in crossing the ocean or in rush- 

 ing across continents, the former throws the washing of a 

 week, a fortnight, or a month, into a pastime of a few moments' 

 duration, and gives the operator almost the entire day to de- 

 vote to leisure, or such employment as fancy dictates. We 

 saw the machine in operation; — dirty shirts were rendered en- 

 tirely clean and pure in twenty seconds, and napkins in one- 

 half of the time. When the merits of this machine are fully 

 known, the response of blushing maidens to suing lovers 

 will no longer be, " Do you take the papers ?" but, Have you 

 Miller's patent washing machine ? 

 To H. W. Chamberlain & Co., of Pittsfield, for a 

 drafting machine of great convenience and utility 

 in architectural and mechanical drawing, and one 

 which no good artist will omit to purchase, . . $3 00 

 To M. W. Stevens, for a drum of fine martial tones, 



and good finish, ....... 2 00 



To Stephen W. Halsey, of West Stockbridge, for a 



sugar mill, ........ 1 00 



To Martin Rees, of West Stockbridge, for a very fine 

 fanning mill, well worthy of the attention of farm- 

 ers, 2 00 



To Nelson Tracy, for a set or horse shoes, . . 1 00 



To John Volk, of Pittsfield, for two beautiful marble 

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