264 Teaa'sacttoxs of the American Institute. 



We have settled the question respecting the length of life, with 

 domestic animals associated with man. Their days are specifically 

 limited. They are quickly developed, and almost as rapidly fall into 

 decay. Man's mission and nltimate destiny are so widely different, 

 the laws governing his organic structure operate in conformity to a 

 higher nature ; the corporal lasts longer, that his intellect may be 

 exercised for directing and controlling the mineral, vegetable and 

 animal kingdoms, he being truly lord of all he surveys. 



Woodward's Fountain Wasiher and Boiler. 



Mr. Edward F. Woodward exhibited in active operation his fountain 

 washer and boiler, which took the highest premium at the Fair of 

 the American Institute, in 1863. This remarkable contrivance is 

 wholly self-acting : by applying heat to the bottom of the boiler, 

 steam is generated, causing a rapid circulation of water or suds, and 

 producing a continuous upward flow of boiling suds through the 

 center tube, from which it is forcibly discharged, and spread over the 

 suface of the clothes, thoroughly penetrating and percolating through 

 every fibre on its return through the perforated circulator to the 

 bottom of the boiler or lower reservoir. In this manner it most 

 effectually cleanses the clothes from all impurities, without labour or 

 annoyance of any kind. 



Messrs. N. C. Meeker, S. E. Todd, and J. B. Lyman said they had 

 this boiler in use in their families and find that it greatly shortens 

 the labor of washing, and robs Monday of its terrors for tlie house- 

 wife. 



IIoRSE Hay-fork. 



Mr. L. S. Mason, of Middlefield, IST. Y., showed a harpoon fork for 

 loading and unloading hay. It is a hollow car of steel sharpened in 

 angles at the tip. When plunged into a pile of hay, a string is pulled 

 by which spurs are made to come out and hold the harpoon so several 

 Inmdred weight can be lifted by it. Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter spoke of 

 it as superior, in his opinion, to any hay-fork in use, and he has tried 

 nearly all the late patents. 



Holly's Laundry Fork. 



Tliis Avas exhibited by Messrs. Peck & Seymour. It is of galva- 

 nized iron, with a wooden handle, and was highly commended. 



