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Whitcomb & Carter, to whom was awarded the pre- 

 mium for largest collection of agricultural implements, 

 was a "■ tree protector," made of strong wire strongly 

 connected. It was efficient for trees up to 6 or more 

 inches in diameter. The price was 75 cents. Mr. 

 Holt, a member of our committee, was quite favorably- 

 impressed with its good workmanship and low price. 

 The lawn roller, exhibited by this firm, ran on ball 

 bearings, weighed 260 lbs., and was sold at 113. Their 

 dirt scraper, price $8, had the improvement of a pair of 

 stout iron shoes along the bottom. Mr. Fuller had his 

 usual exhibition of excellent weeding tools, the efficiency 

 of which we can bear testimony to from personal experi- 

 ence of their merits. He has taken the wise course, so 

 fair for both parties, of carrying them from farm to farm 

 in the growing season and allowing them to demonstrate 

 in the farmers' hands by actual trial whether or not the}'- 

 can help him efficiently in his annual warfare with the 

 weeds. There is one tool, most important to the farmer, 

 that we rarely see on exhibition at our Agricultural Fairs, 

 that is the hoe. There is no tool in use on the farm in 

 which there has been a greater improvement made by 

 American ingenuity; with its narrow, thin steel blade, 

 hung at the best angle on a well made ash handle (not 

 white wood), it has apparently reached perfection. 



For the Committee, 



J. J. H. Gregory, 

 Peter Holt. 



CARRIAGES. 



$13 Gratuity to T. W. Lane, Amesbury, for exhibit of 



three carriages. 

 -flO. Gratuity to M. Plumstead, Lynn, for wire wheel 

 pneumatic runabout. 

 $2 Gratuity to L. B. Packard, Salem, for motor carriage. 

 Richard Newell, S. D. Hood, B. P. V\\iq.— Committee. 



