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to most of the entries. Let me suggest that perhaps soiiie- 

 thiug mi)re than this is needed to induce manufacturers and dealers 

 to take the trouble and expense of showing their goods. 



Taking np the list of entries, let us notice a few in particular. 

 First, the Warrior Mower, entered l)y E. A. Munsell, the only ma- 

 chine of the kind present. Durability and easy draft are the claims 

 of the manufacturer for this mower. Next in order we notice the 

 Perry spring tooth implements, made by G. B. Olin & Co., Perry, 

 N. Y., including cultivator, harrow, and seed sower and harrow 

 combined. This last mentioned may be a good thing on the lai'ge 

 fields of the West, but would hardly be called for in New England. 



Coming to dairy implements we find a little competition, the rival 

 creameries, Moseley's and Cooley's being on exhibition by their 

 agents who were ready to explain the merits of each. Either cream- 

 ery is a means of saving a great deal of abor in dairying over old 

 methods. The Moseley's claim is that they use less water, and conse- 

 quently save ice in raising the cream. This creamer is used b}" some 

 of the best dairymen in the vicinity. The Cooley men claim a supe- 

 riority for their system of submerging the milk, thus preventing all 

 possibility of impurities from the air reaching it while the natural 

 odors of the milk can pass into the water. The Cooley can and 

 creamer were selected by the managers of the Amherst Creamery for 

 its patrons to use after they had made a thorough examination of 

 different cans used by like institutions. The great advantage in us- 

 ing a creamery is the ability of the dairyman to control the tempera- 

 ture, and raise all the cream before the milk can sour, as it is sure 

 to do in warm weather when set in shallow pans before the cream 

 can rise. I am satisfied that a man with a large dairy with running 

 water or plenty of ice, will get enough more butter from milk set in 

 that way in one year to i)ay the first cost of the creamer. 



At the present time when it costs so much to hire laborers to do 

 the farm work, it is very important that a farmer should have the 

 implements to do as much as possible by horse power. This is espe- 

 cially true of the larger farms. That the farmers in Amherst and 

 vicinity may have an opportunity to see the implements on the mar- 

 ket at present without the troul)le of extra travel and time for the 

 purpose, it seems to me that the officers of this societ}' should use 

 every effort to make the show of implements and machines as large 

 and complete as possible, and that the fair may be of more practi- 

 cal importance to us all, let as many as possible be shown in opera- 



