60 ON AGIUCULTURAL niPLEMEXTS. 



mestic skill, were observed at the fair, At the an- 

 nual fair of the Royal Society of England, held in 

 July last, the show of implements embraced no less 

 than eighty six different ploughs, numerous thresh- 

 ing machines for horse and hand power, straw 

 cutters, harrows, scarifiers, mowing machines, drill 

 barrows, &c. It is true, that the premiums offered 

 by foreign societies are well adapted to call forth 

 invention and skill, and to excite competition. For 

 example, in the list of premiums offered by the 

 Scotch Agricultural Society for the present year, 

 (nearly three hundred in number,) is one of twenty 

 five hundred dollars for a steam machine for plough- 

 ing. 



The agricultural societies of New England have 

 no such splendid rewards to offer; but they stand 

 ready to foster, as they are able, native talent, and 

 to usher before the public eye, the results of its la- 

 bors. Let, then, the mechanics, and the farmers of 

 Essex county set their wits at work in devising and 

 executing a larger number of improved implements 

 for farming. Yankee ingenuity is busy in all the 

 other departments of industry; that there is room 

 for improvement here cannot be denied; that other 

 countries are going ahead in agricultural mechanics 

 must also be acknowledged. Shall New England ; 

 shall Essex county fall in the rear in the rapid march 

 of agricultural improvement? 



ALLEN W. DODGE. 



Hamilton, October 5, 1840. 



Copy of Certificates. 



I have used Adams's Wheel Hand Rake and found 

 it to be of great utility. I believe I can rake six 

 acres in the same time that two acres can be raked 

 by a common hand rake. 



WILLIAM C. LANGLEY. 



Newbunj, October 1, 1840. 



