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ties. In view of the several mowers presented to their notice, 

 the committee are free to say that they believe the time is not 

 far distant when the grass on New England farms will be main- 

 ly cut by implements of this description. They therefore rec- 

 ommend that there be paid to William F. Porter, of Bradford, 

 and FiaTi Russell, of Boston, gratuities of ten dollars each for 

 the mowers exhibited by them, as a trifling compensation for 

 their efforts to gratify the public curiosity by a sight of these 

 novel machines. 



The attention of the committee was called by Mr. Bryant to 

 one of Emery's threshing machines that he had been using on 

 farms in Boxford and vicinity to the entire satisfaction of those 

 for whom it was used. No opportunity was given to see its 

 practical operations, any further than to see the principle by 

 which it operated. With this the committee were well pleased, 

 and recommend that a gratuity of five dollars be paid to Mr. 

 Bryant for his trouble in exhibiting this valuable implement. 

 We hear it spoken of with approbation by men in whose judg- 

 ment we have much confidence. 



A portable cider mill was exhibited by El bridge A. Howard, 

 of North Reading. The prejudices of the committee against that 

 much-abused article, good cider, are not so strong as to prevent 

 their examining impartially any improved implement for the 

 making of it. So long as there shall be any occasion for 

 the use of vinegar, so long it is believed will cider be es- 

 teemed of value, to say nothing of other uses that those who 

 love it have a right to make. But we must be satisfied that the 

 machine is a decided improvement. This we cannot say of Mr. 

 Howard's mill. That it will cut apples into small particles we 

 have no doubt; but that as much juice can be pressed from 

 these particles as from the pomace when passed through a well- 

 constructed mill, carried by horse power, we have great doubt. 

 We therefore say nothing in favor of this cider mill. 



The attention of the committee was called to a com planter, 

 carried in the hand, and used for the distribution of the kernels 

 of corn and covering them. It may probably be applied to a 

 useful purpose in some cases ; but it appeared to be a small 

 affair, scarcely worthy any special notice of the committee. 

 The whole expense of the implement is live dollars. 



