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construction. Among the 12 Plows, wei^e 9 varieties, differing in 

 kind or size, as follows : 



One Iron Beam Plow ; one Improved, No. A., ; one Improved 

 Side Hill, No. A., 2 ; one Improved Side Hill, No. B, 1 ; one Im- 

 proved No. 8 ; three Improved, No. 40 ; one Improved Eagle, No. 

 0; two Improved No. 3; one Improved, No. 50. 



The Hay Cutters were two different patterns of a highly approved 

 instrument, in which the knives are set upon a cylindi'ical surface, 

 and bear another cylinder made of raw hide. 



There was also a lot of Plows and one Cultivator, manufactured 

 by Prouty & Mears, of Boston, who have established for themselves 

 a wide reputation, by the variety and excellence of their agricultural 

 implements. Besides a variety of other Plows exhibited by them, 

 the Michigan Plow for sward land, deserves notice for its ingenious 

 construction. It has two shares, one of which is elevated, and in ad- 

 vance of the other. This forward share slices off two or three inches 

 of the turf and inverts it in the bottom of the preceding furrow, 

 while the following share, which is much larger, and runs several 

 inches deeper, cuts and crumbles a larger share of the lower earth, 

 placing it on the top of the inverted sod, so as to give the field the 

 appearance and the advantage of old plowed land without turf or 

 weeds. 



The committee examined with much interest, a Plow made by 

 Messrs. Ruggles, Nourse, Mason &. Co. of Boston and Worcester. 

 It appears to have been planned with special reference to equalizing 

 the force applied to each particle of the earth, from the moment of 

 leaving its bed, to that of its being deposited by tl\e mould-board. 

 The share and mould-board are so formed as to give a uniform veloc- 

 ity of rotation to each portion of soil, till it it is left at such an incli- 

 nation as to be inverted by its weight. By thus accurately grading 

 the motion of all the particles, the force necessary to dra^,' the plow 

 is very perceptibly diminished; a fact, the committee are informed, 

 which has been established by experiments with the dynamometer. 



A Corn and Seed Planter of very ingenious construction, was pre- 

 sented by Mr. Oliver Williams of Sunderland. It can be regulated 

 to drop any desired quantity of seed at any given distances. It 

 opens a drill, deposites the seed, strokes back the ridges to cover the 

 seed, and then rolls down the earth as firmly as may be wished ; 

 and does the whole more thoroughly than it can be done without a 

 machine, and so rapidly, that none who have used the article, will 

 ever think of planting without it. It is abundantly recommended by 

 those who have given it a trial. 



An Instrument for cutting hay, straw, or stalks, was entered by 

 Mr. Eli Warner. It has an appendage for regulating the feed, and 

 appears like a substantial and well contrived article. 



A Corn Sheller, entered by Frink & Co. of Amherst, is quite a 



