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MECHANICS AND MANUFACTURES. 



MECHANICS AND MANUFACTURES. 



The Committee on Mechanics and Manufactures, 

 found about the usual assortment of articles in their 

 department, awaiting the inspection, which at the 

 appointed time, they proceeded to bestow. 



They found several varieties of clothes wringers, for 

 which they awarded premiums as follows : 



L. J. Warren, of Fitchburg, $,50 



A. J. Stone, of Fitchburg, ,50 



C. L Fairbanks, of Fitchburg, ,50 



Each differed from the other in its construction, and 

 each no doubt possessed its peculiar advantages ; but 

 there was no one to point them out, and no one of the 

 Committee wanted his clothes wrung, so we had no 

 practical test of their respective merits. We accord- 

 ingly awarded the premiums, on the general ground 

 that clothes wringers were good things, and ought to be 

 encouraged. 



To Waldo Wallace, we awarded $1,00, for ploughs 

 of very superior workmanship and shape. 



Henry J. Lowe, exhibited two fishing rods, so exquis- 

 itely fashioned and finished, that it seemed impossible 

 to the Committee, that any trout of right feeling, could 

 refuse to " come in out of the wet," when such imple- 

 ments are waved over the stream, by an angler worthy 

 of wielding them. It was believed that they would be 

 irresistible unless to a fish utterly depraved, and lost 

 to all moral sense. We awarded for the rods, $2,00. 



To Thomas Sheldon, for a substantially made and well 

 shaped ox yoke. $1,50. 



One of the Committee thought such a yoke would 

 go far to obviate the inconvenience of being an ox, but 



