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crops well out of the ground, their work ma}^ do more 

 harm than good. In one implement exhibited where the 

 Breed idea was embodied in a cultivator, it struck the 

 committee that it was overdone, for evidently when this 

 implement was used as a simple cultivator, on our average 

 New England farms, with the teeth so near together it 

 must be a great gatherer of stones and so be in constant 

 need of clearing. When spread out to its greatest breadth 

 it appeared capable of doing good surface pulverizing 

 work among squash hills, but as the work always needed 

 there, up to the last moment, as long as the runners will 

 permit, is to lighten and firm the soil rather than merely 

 scratch over the surface, I fail to see how such an imple- 

 ment can be of practical value to the farmer. The collec- 

 tion of dairy implements made by Mr. Moody was com- 

 plete and very interesting ; in every way an up-to-date 

 exhibit, affording a good object lesson. Your committee 

 recognized it as well worth of a special gratuity of -15.00. 

 The bone cutter (for fowls) exhibited by the Messrs. 

 Stearns of Syracuse, N. Y., differs from the well known 

 Marsh cutter in having a vertical rather than a hori- 

 zontal action of the knives. It appeared to be a well 

 made implement. The part containing the knives can be 

 replaced for fifty cents and as one set of knives are guar- 

 anteed to be able to cut 1000 pounds of raw bone it struck 

 your committee as being worthy of notice. There is a 

 fundamental mistake made by about every one we have 

 ever heard advocating the feeding of bones to poultry, it is 

 in asserting that the lime in the bone helps in the formation 

 of the shell of the egg. How can this be possible when 

 the lime in the bone is in the form of phosphate while it 

 is found in the egg shell in the form of carbonate of lime? 

 To sustain their position it will be necessary for them to 

 prove that this phosphate is changed to a carbonate within 

 the fowl. My belief is that what the hen gets from bone is 



