29 



To Miss Emma M. Willis, 25 



To Miss Lizzie Kenney, 12 



To Mrs. Asa Partridge, 12 



The Committee would here state, that there were several 

 specimens of vegetables, on exhibition, which would have 

 been entitled to prerfliums, had the contributors been mem- 

 bers of the Society. 



For the Committee, 



NATHAN UPHAM, Chairman. 



MECHANICAL & MANUFACTURED ARTICLES. 



Committee. — T. K. Ware. Fitchburg, — Ephriam Murdock, Jr., Win- 



chendon, — Asher Green, Jonas A. Marshall, Moses Wood, Fitchburg 



Hobart Spencer, Ashby, — S. S. Farrar, Royalston. 



Your Committee met with some embarrasment in the com- 

 mencement of the discharge of their duties, on rinding that 

 a large number of articles of female workmanship, particu- 

 larly needlework, were subjected (o their criticism and judg- 

 ment. After parleying son. time with their neighbors, the 

 Committee on fancy and useful articles, composed in part 

 of ladies, and endeavoring to induce them to take that class 

 of manufactures under their charge; and after a feeble effort 

 to prevail on that Committee, to lend us one or two of their 

 female members, a proposition which was received by them 

 with the utmost derision, your Committee were forced to 

 make the best judgment they were able in the premises • 

 with regret, however, that articles of such eminent merit as 

 a great part of those thus passed upon by them displayed, 

 should not have been submitted to abler critics. 



From the limited extent to which your Committee were 

 authorized to go in the distribution of premiums, and the 

 large number of articles of merit that it came within their 



