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loom are admirable. "We highly commend this to your most fiivor- 

 ablo award. 



No. 1054. Cotton Gin. (S. E.Parkhurst.) This gin is intended 

 for the long staple cotton, and possesses features of great merit. We 

 highly commend its general design and construction, its strength 

 and compactness. 



The feeding apparatus works most perfectly, and the machine is 

 provided with adjustments to suit the work in hand. It has a con- 

 densing device attached, which delivers the cotton in a sliver con- 

 venient for handling. 



"We have never seen long staple cotton so thoroughl}'- cleaned 

 from the seed; or the fibre delivered so entirely free from injury 

 by breakage. We have seen this machine also clean the short 

 staple cotton, delivering the fibre in good state, and the seeds as 

 perfectly cleansed as by the other gins made expressly for this 

 s:taple. Its rate of work on short staple as compared with other 

 gins, we have had no means of testing. But for the above con- 

 siderations, we heartily recommend it to consideration for first 

 class honors of the Institute. 



No. 571. Cotton Picker, proper. (R. Kitson.) Its merits are, 

 great firmness in its construction, a quality which cannot be too 

 highly commended in machines of this class; excellence of work- 

 manship, which in this kind of machines is an absolute necessity; 

 the self-acting break for compressing the lap, unafiected b}'^ atmos- 

 pheric variations; friction gear for driving the calendar, to pre- 

 vent breakings of gearing b}^ accidents liable to occur in this class 

 of machines more than any other department of cotton machinery. 



This machine is a decided advance upon the best English 

 machines of the same class, and we therefore recommend it to the 

 first class of award. 



No. 675. Mestizo Wool Picker and Burrer. (C. L. Goddard.) 

 Its design is one of great compactness, its material and workman- 

 ship excellent. 



The mechanical arrangement of the details of the component 

 parts, and their execution show good conceptions and skill in carry- 

 ing them out. The arrangement of the several parts in their rela- 

 tions to each other^ and the offices they perform, show bothleflbrt 

 and perseverance in the endeavor to obtain best results. • 



The work performed by the machine in repeated trials, on vari- 

 ous kinds of stock, some of which was purposely selected on account 

 of its unpromising qualities, and the excellent state in which it 



