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We should do injustice did we not particularize other exhibit- 

 ors. The edge tools from Mr. Lemuel Smith, East Smithville, 

 N. Y., were highly creditable. We regret that we are not in 

 possession of full statistics of these and other manufactories. 



Mr. T. H. Witherby, Milbury, Mass., exhibited some of the 

 most highly finished chisels and drawing-knives we ever saw ; 

 and we understand their reputation for quality fully sustains 

 their appearance. 



Long & Davenport, of N. York, exhibited a case of very splendid 

 augers. 



The case of planes from J. W. Farr, 329 Fifth-st., N. York, 

 were of very excellent workmanship. In the manufacture of 

 these articles, beech of the second growth is most commonly 

 used ; but it is said there are other woods of our country equally 

 as good, maple, button- wood, &c., but habit confines the choice 

 to beech, with some occasionally made of box. The irons are of 

 domestic make, of which the materials are in all respects superior, 

 answering every purpose ; but as a general thing they are not so 

 ]?rell finished as those imported. Twenty-five years ago nearly 

 all our planes were imported, now there are very few. 



The exhibition of tinners' tools from Messrs. Logan & Vail, of 

 N. York, was extremely beautiful in point of workmanship, and 

 admirably adapted to the purposes intended. 



Such is the superiority of the domestic articles in edge tools, 

 that in some particulars the foreign article, though ofiered at half 

 price in this market, meets with but little encouragement. We 

 have it from good authority that importations have ceased to 

 affect the manufacture of edge tools in the United States. 



A. C. 



POCKET CUTLERY. 



The manufacture of pocket cutlery ha^ labored under much 

 embarrassment in our country, and has hitherto met with but 

 partial success, and all evidence of progress in this branch of 

 American interests is worthy the attention of the friend of home 

 manufactures. 



