100 ON DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES. 



ON DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES. 



Your Committee having attended to the duties assigned them 

 as fully as the length of time allowed them would permit, beg 

 leave to submit the following Report : 



The number of contributors of articles for the examination 

 of your Committee was one hundred and sixty, which, consid- 

 ering the unfavorable state of the weather, is very large, and 

 shows the increasing interest the exhibitions of the society are 

 awakening. The articles entered this season were more vari- 

 ous than in former years, and your Committee are pleased to 

 see that the Mechanics of our County are making exertions for 

 and taking more advantage of, the exhibitions of our society 

 than formerly. 



Your Committee cannot avoid urging upon the attention of 

 the society, the importance of adopting some measures to give 

 more time for the arrangement and exhibition of articles in this 

 department. It seems to us that much more practical advan- 

 tage would be gained to the county at large, if a better oppor- 

 tunity could be given to the ladies to examine the improve- 

 ments in the manufacture of the various articles exhibited ; the 

 examinations now are obliged to be made in so hurried and 

 crowded a manner, that many give up the attempt to see the 

 exhibition, rather than submit to the squeezing process attendant 

 upon it under the present mode of management. Your Com- 

 mittee, if they have not done exact justice to all the difierent 

 contributors, must plead the hurried manner in which they 

 were obliged to act, and recommend to any who may feel dis- 

 satisfied, if such there be, to ^^ try againy 



The following premiums and gratuities have been awarded. 



PREMIUMS. 



Mrs. John Pearson, Newbury, strip Carpet, 1st prem. $.5 00 

 Mrs. Jonathan Berry, Middleton, strip Carpet. 2d prem. 3 00 

 Mrs. Sarah G. Cook, Newburyport, Stair Carpet, 1st 



premium. 3 00 



Mrs. Eliza Rowe. Rockport, Rug, 1st prem. 3 00 



