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in the minds of the Committee, a useful one, and they therefore 

 award to Mr. John Follansbee, of West Newbury, a gratuity of 

 two dollars. 



Moses Colman, Esq. sent for exhibition his horse rake, made 

 by the shakers of Canterbury, of beautiful construction, every 

 tooth shielded with Iron, and a most complete instrument, which 

 had been proved by two years' use. 



The field for improvement, though much cultivated within the 

 last fifteeen or twenty years, is still open for the ingenuity of 

 man to exercise his skill in abridging manual labor, and thereby 

 reducing the greatest item of expense attendant on the practical 

 farmer. 



The Plough, for which more than a hundred patents have 

 been obtained, since the promulgation of that glorious document, 

 the declaration of Independence, has, by late improvements, ar- 

 rived to such perfection, that could our oxen, like Balaam's ass, 

 be endowed with the power of speech, they would shout, How- 

 ard forever, or, in the more quaint language of the late political 

 times, " Huzza for Howard" the man who has relieved our 

 ftecks of half their burden, and aided the Harrow in its duties. 



The threshing mills have experienced great improvements. 

 The Pennsylvania revolving horse rake is also an implement of 

 great utility, and it still remains for man to apply the horse pow- 

 er to the cutting and spreading, as well as raking of hay. Im- 

 provement in the art of corn shelling, so as to combine the sep- 

 aration of the corn from the cob, and the complete cleansing of 

 the corn for use, still remains a desideratum for the ingenuity 

 of man to supply. 



With the hope that these suggestions may stimulate inventive 

 minds to action, to supply these deficiencies, we most cordially 

 offer our grateful thanks to all those laborers in this most useful 

 field, who, by their inventions have abridged labor, and thereby 

 benefitted their country. 



Hector Coffin, ^ 



Daniel Putnam, > Committee. 



Moses Newell, \ 



