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win, of West Amesbury, for the best Goddard Buggy, it 

 being the only carriage entered. Your Committee regret 

 that there was only one carriage on exhibition, in a county 

 where manufacturing of carriages is so extensively carried on, 

 and would recommend there be additional premiums oflFered 

 to encourage the manufacture. 



Ebenezer B. Currier, Warren Ordway, Isaac B. Little, 

 Committee. 



FARM IMPLEMENTS. 



The Committee on Farm Implements have attended to the 

 duties assigned them, and report : 



There were but four entries, viz : — One model for a sheep- 

 rack ; one patent ox-yoke ; one patent hog-trough ; one wine- 

 press. We found in the tent two corn shellers, not entered, 

 but which the Committee thought very favorably of — Fitz, 

 Ricker & Moulton's New England Corn-Sheller, patented July 

 11th, 1865, manufactured at Exeter, N. H. ; and the Granite 

 State Corn-Sheller, by Capt. Amos Poor, of Newburyport. 



The Exeter machine separates the corn from the cob, and also 

 the dust and chaflf. It is small and simple in construction, 

 and, we think, an improvement upon any one heretofore ex- 

 hibited, and to which the Committee recommend a gratuity 

 of $3. 



The Granite State is a good machine, shells perfectly clean, 

 but the corn and cob fall together, which would be an objec-. 

 tion to many ; but the machine is so simple and so little com- 

 plicated, the Committee would recommend a gratuity of $2. 



The model for a sheep-rack is a new thing, but, we think, 

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