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ing; Mr. McCormick, Chicago, 111., reaping and mowing; Mr. 

 J. H. Manny, Illinois, reaping and mowing. Mr. T. D. 

 Burrall, Geneva, N. Y., reaping and mowing ; Mr. E. F. Forbush, 

 Buffalo, reaping and mowing ; Mr. Schnibley, reaping and mow- 

 ing ; Mr. J. Rapalje, reaping and mowing; Mr. H. B. Chaffe, 

 Hartford, Conn., a model. 



Mr. J. W Wright, Chicago, Illinois, reaping, mowing, and 

 raking machine, invented by Atkins. This machine came in too 

 late for competition. The committee, however, in view of th© 

 ingenuity displayed in the automaton raker, awarded a silver 

 medal. a. c. 



MACHINE FOR PAGING ACCOUNT BOOKS. 



Messrs J. & W. McAdams, Boston, Mass., exhibited two ma- 

 chines for printing tlie folios in account books, consisting of an 

 endless chain of type running in succession over a flat shaft so as 

 to expose in regular order two pages at a time for printing, which 

 is done by the foot motion, bringing two ingeniously contrived 

 plattens together; at the same time, the reverse of the same mo- 

 tion turns two more pages, and inks both sides with one ink 

 roller. This machine is capable of paging books as last as the 



