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MECHANICS AND M ANUF ACT TJKE S . 



merits which do credit to their teacher, but also because 

 attention to the fine arts refines, elevates and improves 

 those who bestow such attention. 



By order of the Committee, 



KENDALL BROOKS, Chairman. 



MECHANICS AND MANUFACTURES. 



The articles which came before the Committee this 

 year were perhaps less in number, but in utility^ 

 design and mechanical execution they would compare 

 favorably with any former exhibition. If space per- 

 mitted we should be pleased to mention articles which 

 deserve more notice than they receive by the awards 

 of the Society. 



Mr. Thomas Sheldon brought in an ox yoke, a thing 

 simple in its structure, and most people would say, easily 

 made, but let any one try it, and if in a year's time he shall 

 succeed in making a yoke of so good material, so well 

 fitted in its general form, and so nicely finished, he will 

 have good proof that he is a mechanic, and will be entitled 

 to the thanks of. every good farmer in the community. 



Mr. S. G. Frost and Messrs. 0. & S. E. Brigham, 

 exhibited wagons, which, in style and finish, would 

 have done credit to the best carriage manufactory in 

 the State^ while for strength and duribility they were 

 all a purchaser could ask for. 



Messrs. S. & A. M. Sawyer exhibited a fuse, (too late 

 to receive any award from the Society,) which must 

 have been the result of long and patient study, and the 



