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which we have just been speaking. Its practical working is 

 stated by those who have seen it in operation to be most success- 

 ful. It is thought that in favorable weather, by the use of these 

 machines and of the horse rake, grass may be mown, spread, 

 converted into hay and stored in the barn in a single day. 

 This simple statement, of the correctness of which we have no 

 doubt, is sufficient to commend these machines to every farmer 

 who has any considerable amount of mowing land. 



Your committee cannot close their report without expressing 

 their regret that a larger number of specimens under this class 

 was not presented for their examination. In a department so 

 important it might have been hoped that there would have been 

 a full and valuable collection. Perhaps some explanation of 

 the deficiency may be found in the fact that this building is not 

 yet quite completed, and that the facilities even now afforded 

 for an exhibition were not generally known. We venture to 

 express the hope that, on the next anniversary of the society, 

 the number, variety, and value of the agricultural tools pre- 

 sented for exhibition will leave nothing to be desired. 



James Deaper, Chairman. 



HAMPSHIRE. 

 Report of the Committee. 



'•Mind makes the man." It may be said with as much truth 

 that mind makes the community or nation. The Yankee mind 

 is said to be peculiarly inquisitive. Whether inquisitiveness 

 and inventive genius are necessarily copartners, we will leave 

 for doctors and philosophers to decide, inclining, however, to 

 the opinion that they are. The live Yankee, with his bosom 

 companions, a jackknifc and pine stick, almost invariably pro- 

 duces something both novel and useful. Be this as it may, we 

 may rest assured, in this age of mechanical fairs, agricultural 

 societies, and baby shows, that the genius of America is inven- 

 tive. 



The character of our inventions, whether in science or art, 

 is eminently practical, adapted to our wants, and calculated to 



