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rers, in the reports and transactions of the several societies. 

 When the reputation of an implement has become thoroughly 

 established, and its properties well known to the public gene- 

 rally, it may not be useful or expedient to burden exhibitions 

 with it year after year; but with the thousand changes, altera- 

 tions, improvements and new inventions which are being made 

 and taking place constantly, there is enough to contribute 

 vastly to the interest of exhibitions, and the public display of 

 which could not fail to be conducive to the interests of manu- 

 facturers and farmers. 



, In New York the implement department is one of the most 

 varied and interesting of their exhibitions. The State society 

 of that great State, to be sure, offers a wider field for display 

 than our county societies, and the extent of the farming in 

 that section has been the means of the introduction and use 

 of a large number of machines but little known among the 

 small farmers of New England; but there can be no good 

 excuse for the abandonment entirely of a plan here, which is 

 carried out on a scale so extensive, and so conducive to public 

 improvement, there. To show at once something of the extent 

 and variety of those exhibitions and the character of the imple- 

 ments and machines common in New York, and which are 

 rarely seen in this Commonwealth, we copy the following 

 names of articles for which premiums were awarded there in 

 1850. 



" Corn Cultivator ; Fanning Mill ; Cornstalk Cutter ; Corn 

 and Cob Crusher; Horserake ; Grain Cradle; Six-hand 

 Rake ; Threshers, to be used with horse or steam power ; 

 Seed Planter ; Grain Drills ; Broadcast Sower ; Wheat Culti- 

 vator ; Portable Saw Mill ; Corn Sheller ; Vegetable Cutter," 

 &c. &c. 



We find in a newspaper the following account of the " Horse 

 Drill," a machine of great labor-saving power. 



" This machine will plant wheat, rye, Indian corn, oats, peas, 

 beans, ruta-bagas, &c., and can be regulated to drop any re- 

 quired quantity on an acre. The drills can be thrown in or 

 out of gear separately, so as to plant a field of any shape with- 

 out seeding any part twice. They are so arranged as to ope- 

 rate well on all kinds of land, — hilly and rough, as well as 

 level and smooth. A man with two horses can put in from 



