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The Fleetwood Scroll-Saw. 
Like a turning-lathe, the Fleetwood Scroll-Saw is a 
machine useful to both mechanics and amateurs. This 
is a neat and portable contrivance in which a small saw 
can he worked with great rapidity by means of a treadle. 
The engraving sufficiently represents the machine. It 
consists of a treadle and the necessary but simple gear¬ 
ing to impart a quick motion to the saw, and a table to 
hold the material to be sawed. The whole may bo fixed 
to an ordinary table, and may he set up in a work-shop 
or a sitting-room. The saws are very small, the largest 
not being as wide as an ordinary watch-spring, and are 
put in place and taken ont with the greatest ease. The 
saws are of various degrees of fineness adapted for 
working woods of different hardness, and some with very 
small teeth, scarcely larger than those upon a file, may 
he used for sawing brass, copper, and other metals. For 
pattern-makers and other mechanics who need to do fine 
sawing this machine is admirably suited, while for those 
amateurs who wish to exercise their ingenuity in orna¬ 
mental work we can not conceive of anything more com¬ 
pact and efficient. Of late years, what is called Sorrento 
wood-carving has become a fashionable amusement. 
Various tasteful and useful articles, such as brackets, 
match-boxes, book-racks, and the like, have been made 
by ladies by the slow process of working out the designs 
with a band-saw. To those who have patiently elabor¬ 
ated patterns by hand this machine will be especially 
welcome, as it leaves both hands at liberty, and while it 
insures greater accuracy it does the work with vastly 
greater rapidity. From what we have seen of the working 
of this saw, we think it will meet all the requirements of 
those in want of such a machine. The saw is manufac¬ 
tured by Trump Bros., Wilmington, Del. 
Hew York State Fair. 
The fair of the New York State Agricultural Society 
was held at Albany (Sept. 34th to Oct. 11th), upon the 
grounds of the Albany Art and Industrial Association. 
These grounds are handsomely laid out, and the build¬ 
ings admirably adapted for the convenience of the visit¬ 
ors and the comfort of the stock and exhibitors. The 
fair was a grand success. The exhibition of horses, 
cattle, sheep, hogs, and poultry was excellent. Although 
there were no ” exhibitions of speed," yet there were 250 
entries of horses. Amongst the premiums offered for 
this class of stock there were one for the best stallion 
for general purposes with five of his produce, and one 
for the best walking horse. The offer of such premiums 
is greatly to he commended, and must have a very bene¬ 
ficial effect in the improvement of horses for genera] 
purposes. There were nearly 400 entries of cattle, the 
Jerseys and Ayrshires numbering more than half of the 
whole, as might be expected in a great dairy state. 
Shorthorns, Devons, Herefords, Dutch, and grades made 
up the rest of the entries. Amongst the entries of 
sheep and swine we missed the names of some well 
known breeders, who probably are resting upon their 
laurels gained in former years. The dairy department 
was well supplied, and the quality of the butter and 
cheese shown was especially noticeable for its excellence. 
In nothing more than this is the advantage of the Jersey 
and Ayrshire cow to the dairy abundantly shown—the 
prize rolls and tubs being the produce of Jersey cows, as 
were also most of the competing ones. The horticultural 
department occupied a handsome glazed building, in 
which there was doubtless too much glass, and conse¬ 
quently too much heat for cut flowers, of which there 
was a splendid collection. Messrs. Vick, Briggs & 
Brother, and Ellwanger & Barry, all of Rochester, made 
this department gorgeous with their displays of flowers 
and fruit. The mechanical department was well filled, 
and on the whole the society is to he congratulated on 
achieving a splendid success, richly deserved, however, 
by the untiring efforts of the indefatigable officials. 
The Hebraska State Fair. 
The seventh annual fair of Nebraska was held at Lin¬ 
coln during the first week in September. The whole 
number of entries was larger than last year, and the at¬ 
tendance about the same. Except in tlia.single instance 
of agricultural implements, Ihere was no competition 
from other States. The stock shown was first-class, and 
would do to exhibit anywhere. Thorongh-bred Jerseys, 
Devons, and Shorthorns—the latter, as is usual in the 
West, leading in point of numbers — and a few excellent 
grades were on exhibition. 
In the line of pigs Berltshires took the lead, hut there 
were some fine Essex, Poland-Chinas, and Chester 
Whites in the pens. 
There was a large display of agricultural implements, 
especially plows. Three or four kinds of two-horse corn- 
planters, any one of them capable of planting twenty 
acres in a day, two-horse corn-cultivators which cultivate 
both sides of a row at once, with mowers and reapers, 
separate and combined, corn-shellcrs, liay-rakes with 
which yon can rake hay with your horse on a full trot, 
patent churns, washing machines, etc., with a goodly 
number of gentlemanly agents, were on hand to attract 
the attention of Nebraska farmers. It was rather 
remarkable, however, that among such a large display 
of plows there should have been but two gangs—one 
a breaking and one a stirring plow — and one sulky 
plow. One of these gangs and the sulky plow were tried 
on the agricultural college farm, near the fair grounds, 
on Thursday, in the presence of a large number of far¬ 
mers, and excited great interest. A grain cleaner, which 
separated oats from wheat or barley and rye from wheat, 
was on the ground, and commanded great attention from 
the farmers; as did a water-heater, with which the in¬ 
ventor claimed to be able to boil a barrel of water with 
one peck of cobs. The fruit display was excellent for 
such a young State. J. II. Masters, of Otoe Co., exhi¬ 
bited 72 varieties of apples and 23 varieties of pears 
grown in his own orchard; S. B. Ilobson, of Cass 
Co., 46 varieties of apples; Joel Draper, of Ot.oe 
Co., 28 varieties of pears and 10 of grapes; and Mr. A. 
Rohner, of Washington Co., 31 varieties of apples. 
Besides these there were many other smaller collections 
which there is not room to enumerate. 
Two public addresses, were made during the fair, one 
by lion. J. Stirling Marlon, of Nebraska City, and the 
other by Mrs. Matilda Fletcher, of Iowa. Both were 
excellent efforts, and highly admired. 
The fairgrounds are situated half a mile north of the 
city of Lincoln on the line of the B. & M. R.R., and as 
the railroad, with characteristic liberality, put in a 
switch and stopped all trains at the grounds during the 
exhibition, the best opportunity was offered for getting 
articles to and from the grounds. 
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Western Hew York Fair. 
Although a little too much “horse,” the Western New 
York Fair, held at Rochester, September 16-19, was very 
creditable to the farmers of that highly favored section, 
nere, as at nearly all the fairs we have attended this jiear, 
the poultry department was well filled and attracted much 
attention. The show of cattle was not what we should 
have expected from the Genesee Valley. There were, 
however, one or two fine herds of Shorthorns and some 
good Jerseys and a few Ayrshires and Devons. In sheep 
the long-wools predominated, hut with the exception of 
some superior Cotswolds, shown by Mr. Ward, of Leroy, 
there were very few pure-bred long-wooled sheep. They 
were mostly “ Canada sheep ” of a very mixed character. 
There were a few choice South-Downs, an I a fine display 
of Merinos. There was an unusually fine show of swine, 
especially of Berkshires. Only a few Essex were shown, 
hut these were good. The Clieshires and Chester Whites, 
