86 I Assembly 



The committee would respectfully suggest that the Institute make 

 some effort to produce some improvement upon the dynamometer, or 

 a new mode of testing the power necessary to move the plow. Very 

 little reliance can be placed on those now in use. The least diffe- 

 rence in the surface of the land and small obstacles, cause great and 

 constant variations in the index. We believe that the ingenuity of 

 our countrymen, if once turned in this direction, would produce an 

 instrument which would indicate with much minuteness and correct- 

 ness the power necessary in the draft of the plow. 

 By order of the Committee, 



ALBERT G. CARLL, ChairTuan, 



Castle Garden, Uh of October, 1849. 



