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fore long one defect and another come out where you little sus- 

 pect it, and unless it be remedied, they must be abandoned. 

 Pope's very conservative rule with regard to fashion, might 

 perhaps be recommended in the use of fiirm implements : — 



"Be not the first by whom the neAv is tried, 

 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside ; " 



only we should be glad to know, if every body adopted this 

 rule, how any impiovement is to be introduced ? There must 

 be a first one to try every new thing, and generally it is the 

 most enterprlzlng and thrifty — sometimes, too, the most no- 

 tional — who is ready and willing to do it. And the whole 

 farming community are under obligations to such men ; men 

 who at great expense of time and money, and sometimes at 

 the risk of prejudice and ridicule, go forward with a new 

 horse-mower, or a horse-rake or hay-tedder, and by their ex- 

 ample revolutionize their neighborhoods. All honor to such 

 men ! They are benefactors of their race ! Let the Essex 

 Agricultural Society ever encourage such men by prompt and 

 appreciative attention, and by a liberal award of premiums. 



At an exhibition of agricultural implements, the committee 

 labor under a difficulty in making their awards. It is seldom 

 they can assign reasons for their preference of one implement 

 over another of the same class, founded on a trial of them on 

 the spot. They must rely, therefore, on a careful inspection of 

 the implements and such reliable testimony as they can gather 

 from those who have used them. And this, with a single ex- 

 ception, is all we have been able to do on the present occasion, 

 and accordingly we submit the following premiums and 

 gratuities : — 



PREMIUMS. 



For the best Mowing Machine, to Whittcmore, Belcher & 

 Co., of Boston, for Wood's New Jointed Bar Mower, $10. 



For the best Farm Wagon, to Samuel A. Merrill, of Dan- 

 vers, the same being a two-horse Market Wagon, $10, 



