36 Reports of Committee*. 



Tot best specimen Canned Fruit. Mrs. T. Curtis of Sheffield, $3 0f> 



2d do., Mrs. L. Hulet of Sheffield, 2 00 



3d do., Mrs. Miles Avery of Great Barrington. 1 00 



For best specimen of Cranberries, John Cook of Lenox, 1 00 



Alonzo Bradley, 



William O. Curtis, J- Committee 



EVARTS SCI'DDER, 



MECHANICAL PRODUCTION^— 20 ENTRIES. 

 The exhibition in this department was meager and unsatisfactory. There 

 were but twenty entries where there should have been one hundred, and all 

 but three of them for miscellaneous articles for which the Society offer no 

 premiums. The yearly growing poverty in this department is remarkable 

 and is especially recommended to the society's consideration. It is not be- 

 lieved by your committee that the inventive and executive ability of the 

 Yankee mind and hand is less, but that your inducements for the exhibi- 

 tion should be more. We award the following premiums : 



For best Pleasure Harness, W. F. Gale of West Stockbridge, 4 00 



For best specimen of Leather, S. A. Turner of New Marlboro, $3 00 



2d do., Berkshire Woolen Company of Great Barrington, 2 00 



For Ax Helves, Chester Spaulding of Sheffield, 1 00 



2d do., Joel E. Dealand of SandisfleJd, 1 00 



For Whips and Lashes, William R. Baldwin of New Marlboro', 2 00 



For Ox Yoke, D. Boardman of Sheffield, 1 00 



For Churn, Daniel Warner of Great Barrington, 1 00 



FcB Patent Ash Droper, S. S. Dewey of Alford, 1 00 



For Wagon Jack, E. R. Baldwin of New Marlboro, 1 00 



Cross-cut Saw, I. J. Lowrey of Egremont, 1 00 

 For Compensation Balance, an arrangement for counteracting the effects of heat and cold In 



witches, something indispensable to aU correct time keepers, T. S. Heuth. Stockbridg«, 2 00 



R. N. Couch, ) 



C C. French, £- Committee. 



Marcellus Chapin, ) 



AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS— 20 ENTRIES. 



The Committee upon Agricultural Implements would respectfully report 

 that they have not found as large an exhibition of such Implements as 

 agriculturists use, as upon many former occasions at our exhibitions, unless 

 it be mowing machines, and with them, a committee of farmers, as they are 

 usually made up, almost universally have used certain machines upon their 

 own lands, and are very apt to favor those machines they are the best ac- 

 quainted with. Your Chairman was sorry there was not among the mow- 

 ers some that use the cutting bar upon a line with the axle, like the Gran- 

 ire State, American Mower, which as it seems to him, is a principle not 

 to be lost sight of in our country where so many of our farms are- uneven 

 and rough. A mower adapting itself the best to uneven surfaces, and pos- 

 sessing also strength and durability of construction, must, under all ordin- 

 ary circumstances, sooner or later receive the approval of most of our in- 

 telligent fanners. Your Chairman has always used a mower upon his farm 

 with the cutting bar forward of the driving wheels, with the exception of 

 one season, and is using such an one now, so that the competitors of this 

 exhibition cannot reasonably judge him interested in any one of the mow- 

 ers upon exhibition to-day, or upon the other principle I have mentioned, 



