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of Northern Europe than those from any other quarter. All that 

 was sent out to be sold, with but few insignificant exceptions, found 

 a ready market, and one hundred thousand dollars worth would 

 doubtless have been taken on the ground had it been sent over. 



About four thousand head of the finest stock in Europe was 

 gathered at the exhibition ; yet I am happy in being able to state 

 that the only stock exhibited by us, which were twelve Spanish 

 merino sheep from Vermont, took the highest of the liberal pre- 

 miums offered by the committee, and they were sold on the ground 

 to a nobleman from Silesia, for the enormous sum of one thousand 

 pounds sterling, equivalent to over seven thousand dollars in our 

 currency. 



The Queen of England sent some of the finest animals from the 

 late Prince Albert's model farm, and the Emperor of France exhib- 

 ited some of his best horses, which might be seen making their 

 rounds in charge of the grooms in the imperial livery. The splen- 

 did cattle, of all shades of color, from a pure milk white to the 

 deepest black, large in size and in beautiful proportion, altogether 

 combined to make this an exhibition unsurpassed in its kind by any 

 which have ever been known. 



The premiums received by our contributors were fully in propor- 

 tion to the number of our contributions. Our distinguished fellow 

 citizen, C. H. McCormick, Esq., was there with his magnificent 

 prize reaper which took the first premium at the London exhibition, 

 which, for elegance and perfection of workmanship, probably excels 

 any agricultural macliine in existence, being of oak highly polished, 

 with all the iron and steel work upon it finished in the best man- 

 ner. For this and another machine with which the working trial 

 took place, he received the highest premium — a gold medal ; while 

 Messrs. Seymour and Morgan, of our State, stood next in order, 

 receiving a large silver medal for a very superior self-delivering 

 reaper. 



Medals were also given to Messrs. Yanderbilt of this city, for 

 agricultural implements; to Messrs. R. H. Allen, Messrs. Wendt & 

 Co., and LIr. Johnson, the latter for washing machines. To Messrs. 

 Hale & Parshall, and to Messrs. Hotchkiss & Co., for essential oils, 

 manufactured at Lyons, in this State, were also awarded medals. 



I deem it proper that I- should bring to your notice our deficien- 

 cies in regard to plows, in which I regret to state the English 

 makers were decided by the committee to possess a decided supe- 

 riority. As this is so important an implement of agriculture, I 

 would respectfully suggest, that at the next exhibition held under 

 the auspices of your Society, that inducements may be held out for 



