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Miscellaneous Discretionary — Clara Chapman, fans, 50 ; Ella Longstaff, Ken. 

 painting, 50c ; Mrs. A. B. Chapman, leaf work, 50c ; Mrs. T. A. Burbank, wor- 

 sted toys, 50c, Mrs. J. Vosburgh. Great Barrington, hair, 1 ; Kittie W. Bacon, 

 Great Barrington, feather fans, 50c ; Chas. W. Elmer, brackets and frame, 50 ; 

 Mrs. C. H. Nichols, Richmond, Kensington banner. 1. 



Note. In wood carving, as the committee could not change the premiums, 

 they sought to represent their idea of merit in the allotment of the discretionaries. 



Committee — E. W. B. Canniw;, Mrs. E. McA. Learned, Miss F. P. 

 Bailey. 



MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT, 



Collection of buttons, Edith Bowers, Richmond, 50c; bangle board, Minnie A. 

 Clark, Richmond, 50c; emory bag, Mrs. J. C.Gorton, Lanesboro, 50c; bangle board, 

 Mrs. Fanny M. Pratt, Lanesboro, 50c; air castle, Mrs. J. R Cole Richmond, 50c; 

 bangles, Mrs. Kittie Y. Bacon, Gt. Barrington, 1 50, painted banner, 2, paint- 

 ed tidy, I; paper flowers, Nora Stevens, 1; card board, Ora Snow, Becket, 50c, 

 bead work, 50c; Tidy, Mary E. Conlin, 50c; bead work, Mrs. C. J. Fales, Chesh- 

 ire, 1. 



Committee — H. T. Candee, Mrs. W. H Owen, Mrs. A. C. Chamberi.in. 



AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND 

 MECHANICAL PRODUCTIONS. 



First premium, H. P. Lucus, $5; 2d premium, S. N. & T. E. Hall, 3; white 

 bronze monument, (special) E. B. Wilson, 3; thresher and cleaner combined, 

 (special) John Feather, Berlin, N. Y., 3; Walters tin and copper shingles, (spec- 

 ial) National Sheet Metal roofing Co., N. Y. City, 3; wind mill pump, L. H. 

 Wheeler, Boston, 3; gravity sash holder, Jas. H. Anthony, 2; horse power 

 thresher and cleaner (special) A. W. Gray & Sons, Middletown, Springs, Yt, 3; 

 junior reaper, A. M. Benedict, agt. , 3; improved farm gate, F. B. B. Sears, Dal- 

 ton, 3; national swivel sulky plow, H. P. Lucas, 3, bay state rake, 2; Adriance 

 reaper, (special) S. N. & T. E. Hall, 3, yankee horse rake, 2; bay state fertilizer, 

 Clark Cove Guano Co., New Bedford, 2. 



Committee — H. A. Barton, David Dresser, C. C. Rokinson. 



BEST REPORTS. 



The committee on best reports beg leave to make the following report: There 

 were only 3 committees out of 61 who wrote any report at all, which your com- 

 mittee think is an absolute disgrace to the old society, as the executive committee 

 take great pains to present to the society a list of names of ladies and gentlemen 

 who are supposed to be not only good judges of the articles and animals which 

 they are called to pass judgement upon, but are also appointed with the hope and 

 supposition, that out of the 182 members who serve on committees, at least a re- 

 spectable number will write a report. Even it there was no other inducement 

 than that their reports would be printed in the transactions; and thus make it an 

 enjoyable book to read, and a book of much value, if every commit- 

 tee would only write a short concise reporl upon the subjects which the) 

 are called upon to examine, but when then- i> added the further induce- 

 ment of the premiums offered of N, 6 and 4 dollars, a sum equal to at 

 least a dollar an hour for the time required to write a good report, is in the opin- 

 ion of your committee sufficient inducement to warrant in the future a very large 

 increase in the number of reports. Hoping that the few feeble suggestions pre- 

 sentee! may be the means of animating many more to write reports, if ii .lor-,, we 



