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oonts ; Mrs. C. F. Sins, Dover, hooked rng, rliploma ; Mrs. 1. W. 

 Thayer, oil paintings, |3, crochet tidy, diploma; Miss Alice Policy, 

 East "Walpole, two breakfast shawls, $1 ; J. E. Sturdy, tack-holder 

 and carj)et-stretcher, diploma ; G. E. Paine, patent solder, diploma ; 

 N. Farrington, Jr., coon-skin robe, |1 ; J. B. Johnston, ] tainting, 

 $1 ; Miss Gilson, Hyde Park, very nice wax pond lilies, $2, other 

 flowers, $1 ; Miss Nettie Farrar, Jamaica Plain, wax flowers, 11.50; 

 Mrs. Leon A. Priest, "Walpole, toilet cushion and mats, very nice 

 and handsome, 11.50, sofa })illows, diploma ; Mrs. J. H. Farrar, 

 Jamaica Plain, worsted work, 75 cents ; Mrs. Isaac Ellis, South 

 Dedham, needle work, 75 cents; Hannah Welch, South Walpole, 

 hair work, $2, worsted mat, diploma ; Mrs. J. F. J. Mayo, Need- 

 ham, sofa pilloAvs, $1 ; Miss M. E. Boyden, Hyde Park, crochet 

 tidy, 50 cents ; Lizzie M. Drake, Sharon, 11 years of age, crochet 

 tidy, 50 cents ; Mrs. Martha Tucker, Dover, 95 years of age, calico 

 quilt, II ; Mary Mai'den, Dover, two pairs socks, 50 cents ; Samuel 

 Sias, Dover, infont's shoes, $1 ; Mrs. J. Pratt, Neponset, affghan, $1. 

 The Committee recommend a gratuity to Mrs. C. F. Sias, of 

 Dover, for hooked rug, and make favorable mention of the Pen and 

 Ink sketches (particularly of the portrait of John Brown) exhibited 

 by Bryant & Stratton's Business College. 



Mrs. J. H. FARRAR, 

 Mrs. J. M. HARRIS, 

 Mrs. CHAS. H. LELAND, 



Committee. 



AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND NEW IN- 

 VENTIONS. 



The department of Agricultural Implements was well filled with 

 articles of great usefulness, including several of improved construc- 

 tion and more convenient operation than had been heretofore 

 obtained. 



We regard this depai'tment as of great importance, and exhibitors 

 in it as deserving substantial encouragement. They not only add 

 to the magnitude and variety of the show, but to the means of 

 agricultural progress and improvement. They aflbrd to examiners 

 good opportunity to ascertain the comparative merits of articles of 

 difierent construction, and to select such as are best adapted to 

 particular uses. Improved implements and machinery have prob- 

 ably done more than anything else to advance the progress of agri- 

 culture during the last half century ; and it is by like means that 

 this progress is to be continued. 



It is true, as has been said, that the contributor of any valuable 

 article docs, in this way, make it more known to the community, 

 and thereby reaps an advantage which he might not have otherwise 

 obtained. But the advantage thus obtained does not absolve the 

 Society from obligation to remunerate the efforts made for its bene- 

 fit and in behalf of the general cause of agricultural improvement. 



