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all tend to increase the quantity and quality of butter, it might 

 appear that the committee were fearful that the farmers were 

 about neglecting their own interest. 



GEORGE DENNY, Chairman. 



Mechanic Tools and Agricultural Implements. 



The committee regret to report that an unusually small num- 

 ber of articles, which came under their jurisdiction, was pre- 

 sented for exhibition. They regret this the more, because they 

 regard this department as an important one, and believe that it 

 affords facilities for farmers and mechanics to obtain a knowl- 

 edge of the various new and useful tools and implements which 

 science and active invention are constantly supplying, that can- 

 not generally be obtained in any other way. Printed or written 

 descriptions of new contrivances and improvements, are mostly 

 of trifling importance compared with an actual survey of the 

 thing itself. The success attending the mechanics' exhibitions 

 in Boston, New York, and various other places in our own 

 country, which attract such immense throngs in some of the 

 large European cities, is pretty good proof of this, and tends 

 to verify the old adage, that "seeing is believing." 



Messrs. Ruggles, Nourse & Mason contributed their usual 

 quota towards the exhibition. Twenty-nine varieties of ploughs, 

 a corn-sheller, a vegetable cutter, an improved harrow, and a 

 well made road-scraper were sent in by them. It seems almost 

 incredible that so many kinds of ploughs can be necessary for 

 all soils and situations. But your committee do not hesitate to 

 say, that, in their opinion, the peculiar and distinctive merits of 

 each are visible upon trial and explanation. Many of the im- 

 provements upon the old-fashioned ploughs, which these gentle- 

 men have introduced and adopted, are already so much in vogue, 

 as to be known to all farmers ; while others of later date have be- 

 come known to only a portion of the agricultural interest. It 

 seems to us that the farmer neglects his own real interest in ne- 

 glecting to understand the peculiar utility of most of these im- 

 provements. An improved form of the mould-board, by which 

 the soil is turned more easily and with less exertion to the hand 



