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 VII. ON MANUFACTURES. 



The Committee on Domestic Manufactures have attended to the 

 examination of the various articles exhibited for premiums, with an 

 interest, which the importance of the subject would naturally ex- 

 cite. They havo seen with much pleasure the gradual increase of 

 this important part of domestic economy. They view the articles 

 manufactured in families not merely as valuable in themselves, 

 but as giving employment and encouraging industry and enterprizo 

 among those who without such employment would perhaps remain 

 idle. Articles of domestic manufacture, whether designed for the 

 various parts of clothing or intended for ornament, may be consid- 

 ered as much gained to the community, because they are produced 

 without interrupting the ordinary pursuits of agriculture. Among 

 such a variety of articles exhibited, and in some instances so much 

 competition in the same, it may well be presumed that the com- 

 mittee have not in all cases come to a determination without diffi- 

 culty. And although in instances they may have erred, yet they 

 have endeavoured to exercise their best judgment. 



The following is a list of most of the articles exhibited and pre- 

 miums awarded by the Committee : — 



28 yds.^carpeting, by Sally B. Sawyer, Amesbury, 1st prem. $5 

 A square list carpet 4 yds. by 3J, by Mrs. Fox, Newburyport, 

 2d premium -.-----*, 3 



22 j yards of carpeting by Mrs. Frances Smiley, Haverhill. 

 43f yds. stair carpeting, by Miss Sally Little, Newbury, prem. 3 

 27 yds. stair carpeting, by David Emery, Newbury. 

 Grass bonnet, made from meadow grass, of very delicate 

 manufacture, by Mrs. Rebecca Jenkins, Bradford, 1st pre- 

 mium ---------- 



Palm leaf bonnet, by Phebe G. Jaques, 2d premium - 3 



Bonnet made of the down of milk weed, by Ann P Hale. 

 Hearth rug, Mrs. Mary and Miss Sarah Smith, Danvers, 1st 

 premium --------- 



Hearth rug, by Mrs. Alice Moody, Newbury, 2d premium - 3 



** *' Ann Harris, Newbury. 



" *• Abigail March. 



" " Mrs. Tafts. 



** *' Miss Ann B. Sumner. 



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