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tury and a quarter ago, is still but a new and imperfect thing in 

 our country to-day. Its lever power is yet to be vastly multii)lied ; 

 locomotive fticilitics are yet to be greatly increased, before 

 it will become that perfect blessing which some, and especially 

 those engaged in their manufacture, claim it to be. Vaucanson, 

 the silk-loom inventor and improver, of Lyons, was a greater man 

 than Jacquard, who distinguished himself in the same line, but it 

 was necessary for the perfection of his instrument that the latter 

 should live and labor after him. 



The sixth half acre lot was occupied by a machine of Manny's 

 patent, manufactured and entered by J. P. Adriance & Co., of 

 Worcester. It was a medium size — between the single horse ma- 

 chine of three feet cutter, and the largest of their manufacture, 

 which has a cutter of four feet nine inches. This machine, like 

 all, we believe, of the same patent on the ground, was made with 

 a reel. It moved with such facility, and with such comparative 

 ease, at the tread of the beautiful and finely trained horses attach- 

 ed to it, t£at it appeared more like an ancient war chariot — mov- 

 ing at a peaceful triumph where the victories of Ceres instead of 

 Mars were celebrated — than a simple weapon of the farmer. The 

 spectators seemed at once to be charmed Avith its performances, 

 and for a time, at least, it took the lead in the popular estimation. 

 The machine, great as are its real merits, was fortunate in its 

 proprietors and managers, who were gentlemen both in appear- 

 ance and manners, and were thoroughly trained to their business. 

 So, too, were those beautiful animals which, after performing an 

 extra quantity of labor on and off the field, were permitted to be 

 attached to all the other machines that had entered for premiums, 

 and to be guided by strange drivers, in order that a system of 

 trial might be adopted which would prevent them and others from 

 gaining credit to their machines, on the ground of the efiiciency 

 and training of their teams and drivers. On a close examination, 

 however, of the work after raking, it was found that it was just 

 about on a parallel with the work of the machines of the Ketchum 

 patent, when on their good behavior, but with a narrower cut, in 

 two swaths of about eight inches. 



SCENE THE SECOND. 



Each of the teams and machines as above, one after another, 



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