Report of Judges on AGRicur/ruuAL Implements. Ill 



equally favorable circumstances in the field, and the committee 

 respectfully suggest the propriety of awarding no premiums here- 

 after until such claims shall have been proven. We are well aware 

 that there has already been a number of such contests; but the appli- 

 cation of new inventions renders it but just that another should take 

 place the ensuing year, fur it would be unreasonable to sujipose that 

 with the great progress made of late in mechanics as a science that 

 there could be no further improvement in this equally as good. We 

 do not wish by so saying to deprive those machines, which have been 

 held so high in the estimation of the public, of the credit thej 

 deserve. Neither do we wish to discourage the praiseworthy efforts 

 of those endeavoring to construct an implement which may prove its 

 superiority by commending an inferior article. 



We are satisfied that there are mowers of lighter draft and more 

 rapid vibration of the cutting bar that will accomplish results equally 

 as good. Among them are the Columbian and the Clipper. Yet we 

 have no positive knowledge that these three machines, with their 

 late improvements, have ever come in direct competition. In this 

 case, as in some others, we feel the necessity of being governed, to a 

 certain extent, by facts already accomplished. 



In the principal field trials that have taken place in this country, 

 the Buckeye has not only given good satisfaction, but has in almost 

 every instance been victorious. Consequently in this instance a 

 strict sense of duty imperatively demands that we award the first 

 premium to the Buckeye machine as a mower. A description of this 

 machine has been so often given that we deem it unnecessary to 

 occupy further your time and attention with a detail of its construc- 

 tion. Suffice it to say that it is substantial and looks well. 



No. 055, Columhian Mowing Machine. — -American Agricultural 

 Works, corner Twenty-fourth street and Tenth avenue, New York. 



To this machine we award the second premium, we regard it as the 

 most dangerous competitor of the Buckeye ; it is of quicker motion, 

 and with each movement of the cutting bar, each knife is driven 

 through the finger, making it impossible to clog ; the draft is also 

 lighter; it is a capital nuichine, and worthy of high commenda- 

 tion. 



No. 652. Mower and Reaper comhlned, vnih Self -Bake. — Adriance, 

 Piatt & Co., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 



This machine has been throughly tested, and merits with general 

 approval. To this ( the Buckeye ) we award the first premium. 



