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-estiiig implements, among whicli the Abenaque gas engine 

 •drew a gfreat deal of attention. Mr. C. informed us that 

 it was a live horse power, weighed 1300 lbs., cost |!*275, 

 and could be run at an outlay of one cent an hour for gas- 

 oline. The Champion milk cooler, exhibited by the firm, 

 cost from $1 to ilO. The stock watering device, by the 

 use of which the animals have cleaner water, appeared to 

 your committee worthy of special recognition. The As- 

 pinwall corn and bean planter has made a good record for 

 itself; its method of distributing the fertilizers so that they 

 will not come in contact with the seed planted is a strong 

 recommendation for it. Several of our seed planting ma- 

 chines having fertilizer attachments, are weak just here ; 

 either their fertilizer distributing spout is not strong 

 enough to stand the rough usage of our stony New Eng- 

 land soil, and so ai'e soon bent or broken, or they do not scat- 

 ter their fertilizer or cover them sufficient to protect the 

 seed planted from injury. This was the defect I found in 

 the Aspinwall potato planter as formerly made. The 

 price for the planter and fertilizer distributer is iSO. 

 Breed's hand onion weeder, also exhibited by this firm, 

 we have had occasion to speak a good word for before, 

 drawn from personal experience of its merits. Any farmer 

 who raises an acre of onions would soon get his money 

 back in saving labor in that most costly of all farm work, 

 hand weeding. We run it both ways of the rows before 

 the onions break ground and some of my fellow farmers, 

 whose soil is freer of stones, go farther than this, using it 

 lengthways of the rows, even when the plants are 3 or 4 

 inches high. The Green Mountain silo, exhibited by this 

 firm, a cylindrical affair, to be built of either cypress, pine 

 or spruce, is certainly worth attention, where the material 

 of one'_ with a capacity of 95 tons can now be landed in 

 Massachusetts already to be put together for $184. There 

 is a prospect of a discount from these rates another season. 

 Among the numerous articles exhibited by Messrs. 



