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not a dozen in a day's work, while some hands using hoes 

 and hooks will manage to prong or otherwise mar five or 

 more i^er cent, of what they dig. 



What better way can there be to determine the real 

 merits of new agricultural implements than by having 

 them tested by our agricultural colleges, and these results 

 published in the annual reports ? I believe that it would 

 be wise to have our patent laws so far altered that each 

 introducer of any new agricultural implement should be or- 

 dered to deposit a sample in the agricultural college of his 

 state. I believe that if this matter of having our colleges 

 test and report on the real merits of new implements were 

 once started manufacturers would so find it for their inter- 

 est that it would become the law of custom on the part of 

 both buyers and sellers to have the real status of every 

 new implement determined by such intelligent and un- 

 biased arbiters. We might then see "Implement Day" ap- 

 pear in the catalogue, when you and I and all of us might 

 be invited to join the budding young farmers, with their 

 corps of professors, to determine what improvements the 

 cunning hand of the inventor had been able to make in the 

 agricultural implements of the year. 



James J. H. Gregory, 

 Chairman of Committee on Agricultwal Implements. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON GRAPES, PEACHES 

 AND ASSORTED FRUITS. 



The Committee would beg leave to make the following 

 additional report : 



On entering on our duties as judges in this department, 

 we found things in an unsatisfactory condition. One- 

 fourth of our table had been taken by a catch-penny ad- 

 vertising notion, about which we failed to see anything con- 

 nected with either agriculture, horticulture, or any of the 

 liberal arts, and we were forced to pile up our exhibits as 



