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MECHANICS AND MANUFACTURES. 



year will find an improved interest in contributing 

 specimens from this great and increasing department of 

 our industry. 



Worcester County became noted for her manufactures 

 quite early, and its northern section partook largely of 

 this general feature. Half a century ago we were ahead 

 in saw-mills and in the production of lumber. The 

 manufacture of chairs and wooden ware soon came to 

 be a prominent pursuit. Our soil was not the most 

 favorable for plentiful and easy raised crops of farm 

 products; and so the enterprise and industry of the 

 people, proceeded to extract wealth from the wild forests 

 and the noisy water-falls. Year by year our manufac- 

 tures have increased, our mechanic arts have advanced, 

 and through them, means and resources have accumu- 

 lated. They have buildecl our villages, and attached 

 population to them. 



The mechanic arts by furnishing implements and 

 machinery for farm operations, and manufactures by 

 building up home markets for farm produce,, have both 

 most eminently become the handmaid of Agriculture. 

 Is it not therefore meet, that in years to come, we should 

 make these interests prominent in our exhibitions ? 



Your Committee have made the following awards : 



Bailey, Cook & Co., Woonsoket, R. I, washing 



and wringing machine, $5,00 



Whittemore, Belcher, & Co., chain pin hay cutter, 2,00 



" " " Shaw's coulter harrow, 2,00 



a " " vegetable cutter, 3,00 



Thomas Palmer, artificial teeth, 3,50 



W. Ball, " " 3,50 



Enoch Paige, elevating bed, 3,00 



