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CARRIAGES. 



The Committee award to Grieves & Co. the sum of 

 for the best display of Carriages. 



C. S. Gage, S. W. Spalding, T. K. Leach, Committee. 



FARM IMPLEMENTS. 



The exhibition in this department was larger and of a more 

 interesting character than usual. The show-tent had numer- 

 ous visitors, who manifested an intelligent curiosity to see the 

 many new inventions by which the labor of the farm is made 

 easier and more effective. Indeed, any one who has swung a 

 scythe or used a hand-rake through the busy season of hay- 

 ing, can well appreciate the saving of time, muscle and pa- 

 tience effected by the substitution of the Horse-Mower and 

 the Horse-Rake. These two inventions have enabled our 

 farmers, west and east, to harvest their hay and grain crops 

 during the late rebellion, when there was such a scarcity of 

 men that these crops would otherwise have been largely 

 damaged or lost. And the high cost of labor at the present 

 day is compelling the use of labor-saving implements on the 

 farm to an extent never before known in this country. 



It was a wise and well-timed offer, therefore, of a premium 

 of $25, made by our President " for the best collection of 

 Farm Implements now in use and owned on any farm in Es- 

 sex Countv." His object was to encourage the introduction 

 and use of the very best tools, and to direct attention to the 

 subject in such a way as to show its connection with good 

 husbandry. Unfortunately, there was no entry for this lib- 

 eral premium, owing, perhaps, to its being made so late in 

 tie year. If the premium is continued — as we hope it will 

 be — our next Cattle Show ought to bring out some com- 



