MEOHAlSriC ARTS 



FARM IMPLEMENTS. 



This class includes a great variety of articles. Your committee 

 found twenty-tliree entries on tlieir list. As the person named first 

 on the committee was absent, it falls upon me to make this report. 



Under the first division of the class, I will only mention two entries 

 in particular, choosing to pass on to the second as concerning us 

 more as agriculturalists. The tinner's punch, entered by Mr. N. 

 Olney, of Amherst, I suppose his own invention, is simple in con- 

 struction, made for power and durability. Two express wagons 

 manufactured and entered by A. W. Hall, No. Amherst, were well 

 made and neat looking wagons, just such as every farmer needs. 



When we consider the improvement made in farm implements in 

 the last few years, and the new inventions which are being made con- 

 stantly to save manual labor, it must be admitted that the exhibitions 

 at our last fair was not what it ought to be. Looking over the list 

 we find, to our surprise, that the plow, the emblem of husbandry, 

 was conspicuous by its absence. Not a solitary mouldboard ! not- 

 withstanding several new and improved plows have been brought into 

 this region in the last few years. 



Tn all kinds of farm tools there was little or no competition, so the 

 committee thought best to award the diploma offered by the society 



