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plating swords and other thin articles, this is a very desirabe ma- 

 chine. 



Hydrmdic Rams. 



Your committee remark, that there were three several water rams 

 on exhibilion, of nearly equal merits, for which all received the 

 awards of silver medals, or a diploma certifyiDg a medal previously 

 awarded. 



These machines are useful in agricultural districts; and are made 

 to elevate water for the supply of house or barn, where small streams 

 and brooks exist on a farm, or from a spring near a brook; a low 

 head of water, and quite a small rill is sufficient to raise a supply 

 as above several hundred feet higher than its source. The ram ex- 

 hibited by B. S. Benson, Esq., of Baltimore, Md., is the same a& 

 heretofore exhibited, and is no doubt the meritorious pioneer of all 

 others, and lias been occasion of introducing the use of water rams 

 extensively in agricultural districts. The ram by W. B. Douglass 

 of Middletown, Conn., possesses the facility of regulating the quan- 

 tity of discharge, to accomodate the same to the different seasons 

 of the year; and also the means of cleansing it from sediments, with- 

 out taking the machine apart. The ram by J. L. Gatchel of Elk- 

 ton, Md., contains an improvement by which the mixing of the 

 spring water, with the brook water is prevented, where the water of 

 the brook is used for the power to elevate it, and sping water is 

 desired to be thrown up; no farmer possessing a suitable brook, and 

 contiguous spring, should be without one of these cheap contrivan- 

 ces for elevating water, and by which a supply of water for culina- 

 ry purposes may be furnished for his house — either of soft or spring 

 water, his barn-yard, garden for irrigation, and his pastures for his 

 herds. 



MunselVs Boring and Morticing Machine. 



This machine was exhibited by Mr. C. H. Young of Painted Post, 

 N. Y., and for which a silver medal was awarded. 



There has been of late years a very great number of morticing ma- 

 chines brought out, and for a variety of purposes, they have been 

 classified under the general appelation of " power, hand and foot 

 machines," the first are particularly appropriate for large manufac- 

 turing establishments — the two last named for more general use. In 

 comparing a " hand," with that of a " foot machine," experience 



