ILLUSTRATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF MACHINERY ON 

 EXIIIBITION AT THE 28th ANNUAL FAIR, OCT. 1856. 



REPORT OF THE JUDGES ON REAPING AND MOWING MACHINES AT 

 NEWARK, N. J., OCT. 28, 1856. 



The premium committee of the 

 American Institute having re- 

 quested the undersigned to act as 

 judges of the machines and the 

 work performed at an exhibition 

 of reaping and mowing machines 

 at Newark, on the 28 th inst., beg 

 leave to report: That in compli- 

 ance with tlie invitation of the 

 committee we attended at the 

 time and place designated for 

 the exhibition, upon the grounds 

 of Mr. Israel Crane, where we ex- 

 amined the machines presented 

 by the exhibiters, heard their ex- 

 planations of the peculiar fea- 

 tures of each, and observed their 

 performance while mowing the 

 very light crop of grass which 

 was found upon the field. As 

 no grain crops remain uncut at 

 this season of the year, of course 

 no trial could be made of their 

 fitness for the work of reaping. 



Fo'ur machines were presented 

 and were designated by numbers 

 1, 2, 3 and 4. 



No. 1 was brought by Mr. R. 

 L. Allen. The swath cut by this 



Allen's Mowing.Macbine. 



