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ment was the exhibition of a Horse Pitch Fork, suspended be- 

 tween two apple trees and put in actual operation on the 

 ground by Joseph Kittredge, of North Andover. Probably 

 most of the spectators for the first time witnessed such a sight. 

 In the lofty and roomy barn, this huge fork may unload hay 

 more expeditiously than could be done by hand-forks, but for 

 ordinary sized barns it can hardly take their place. To Doct. 

 Kittredge we award a gratuity of ^3. 



There were two specimens of Horse Mowers on exhibition — 

 one the famous Buck Eye, to be operated by a span of horses, 

 which is so generally used in our own County, and has lately 

 taken the highest premium at the great ti'ial of Horse Mowers 

 — more than fifty entries having been made — by the State 

 Society of New York. To the Buck Eye Manufacturing 

 Company, Fitchburg, we award a gratuity of $3. A very 

 fine one horse INIower, called the Clipper, was entered by John 

 M. Weare, of Seabrook, N. H., to whom is awarded $2. 



Alfred Titcomb, of Amesbury, offered a new style of churn, 

 called Mclntire's Excelsior, which claims to make butter in the 

 shortest possible time and to extract all the butteraceous proper- 

 ties from the cream, by grinding it through a machine attached 

 to the churn, before it reaches the dashers. This contrivance 

 we consider of little or no use ; the butter would come just -as 

 well without as with it. But the dashers to this churn seem 

 to have some new and excellent qualities and we therefore 

 award for it a gratuity of $2. 



The most striking invention brought to our notice was an 

 iron axe-handle wedge, which is inserted into the head of the 

 handle in such a way that it can by no possibility work out, 

 being operated by a screw. It would seem from its simplicity 

 and efiectiveness it must come into general use. We award 

 for it, to H D. Hoyt, $2. 



Two force pumps, varying in their construction and actions, 



were presented, the one by B. F. Watson, of Salem, styled 



Kelley's force pump, the other by Whittemore, Belcher & Co., 



of Boston, styled Joyce's double acting force pump, and we 



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