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wood saw, that a great increase in effective work is at¬ 
tained, some five cords of wood being cut from logs in 
a day by one hand. The price is about $20. 
Cladding’s patent hay fork was shown in partial 
operation, and is obviously a valuable contrivance. 
The hay is raised by a horse, and the load cast off and 
dropped by pulling a cord. The price $10. 
We observed several good horizontal horse powers, 
among them one from Walrath Brothers of Chitte- 
nango, N. Y., compact, well made and quiet running; 
and another from B. & H. Wakely of McLean, N. Y. 
The platform scales from Strong & Ross of Brandon, 
Vermont, appeared to be of excellent manufacture, 
and they are said to possess great accuracy. 
Emery Brothers as usual made an extensive display 
of their well made agricultural machinery. Among 
the objects shown by them, was a collection of plows, 
their dynamometer, which served so valuable a pur¬ 
pose at the Syracuse trial of implements last year, 
their good and simple sugar-cane mill, a simple and 
efficient shingle jointing machine, a clover mill, a corn 
and cob crusher, a horse-fork, corn-sheller, portable 
grist mill, horse-power churn, portable cider mill, and 
last and not least, a set of railway horse-powers, 
thrashers and separators. 
The collection of Richard H. Pease, also of Albany, 
comprised Horse Powers, Threshers and Separators, 
Circular Saw Mills and Saws, a Clover Huller, and 
Cider Mill, on which several prizes were awarded. 
Wheeler, Melick & Co, also exhibited sets of Horse 
Powers, Threshers, &c., from their extensive Factory. 
One of the most admirably made machines on the 
ground, was the portable steam engine from A. N. & 
E. D. Wood of Utica. They have recently made a 
valuable improvement for confining the fire and ren¬ 
dering the engine more safe and secure. So perfect 
was the construction of this engine, that the least 
noise could not be perceived from its active working at 
a distance of two paces, and of course it was perfectly 
free from oscillation—a difficulty of a formidable cha¬ 
racter in some other portable engines. 
Among the other articles which we can only enume¬ 
rate, were Starks and Perigo’s spoke planing machine ; 
Birdsell’s clover thresher and cleaner; Reynold’s 
band cutter and self-feeder for threshing machines, 
simple and apparently efficient; Spencer’s thresher 
and separator, from Tompkins county, well made and 
well arranged ; Westinghouse’s set of excellent railroad 
horse powers and threshers, circular saws, &c., and 
Badger’s horse powers. R. C. Pratt of Canandaigua 
exhibited a simpler and improved form of his ditcher, 
which is reduced in weight and price to about one-half 
of the former machine, and we should think much 
easier to handle and manage. 
A collection of plows from Walter Warren of Utica, 
R. M. Hermance of Syracuse, P. Auld of Utica, Holmes, 
Stringer & Co., Munnsville, J. & G. Lord & Co., 
Watertown, and Woodworth, Whitney & Co., Manlius, 
and cultivators from Sayre & Remington, Utica, J. 
P. Cramer, Schuylerville, and J. S. & M. Peckham 
of Utica. 
Allen’s potato digging plow, and a much more com¬ 
plex digger (costing some $50) from J. E. Harden- 
burgh, Fultonville, N. Y. 
DOMESTIC CONTRIVANCES. 
Shaler’s carpet sweeper, is a revolving brush, which 
carries the sweepings from the carpet into a small tin 
trough, and wholly prevents dust from filling the room. 
The whole is somewhat in the form and about the size 
of a common floor brush, and is thrust backwards and 
forwards across the floor, the motion causing the brush 
to revolve, and thoroughly to clear the surface. 
There were several sewing machines in operation, 
both the old, approved, high-priced machines, and the 
newer and cheaper ones. Among the latter, the 
“ Home Sewing Machine,” from A. N. Dewitt, agent, 
Buffalo, appears to promise best. The contrivance 
for forming the loop is very simple and certain, and the 
machine appears to be of excellent construction. How’s 
spring bed bottom, made of wood slats, hung on steel 
springs at the ends, appeared worthy of commenda¬ 
tion. We observed several forms of the washing ma¬ 
chine, which must require trial for judging properly of 
their merits. Wisner’s is modified so as to wash wrist¬ 
bands and collars alike with other parts of garments. 
Johnson’s patent pounder is commendable from its 
simplicity, and was highly spoken of by those who 
have tried it. A rotating rubber in a tub, constitutes 
the washing machine of A. Wood of Camden, N. Y. 
Swan’s combined machine for washing clothes, churn¬ 
ing, cutting sausage meat, and cutting roots, excited 
much attention for its novelty, and its apparent effi¬ 
ciency as a washer, but it appeared too complex, and we 
think undertakes too much to be good in all. 
Roe’s cheese-vat and heater appears to be a very 
valuable assistant to the cheese maker. A few chips 
will warm sufficiently the large contents of the vat— 
the cost, $20. Robertson’s suspended self-acting cheese 
press was the simplest machine of the kind we saw 
upon the grounds—there were several others of a 
more costly and probably efficient character. There 
were several “improved” churns, but time and op¬ 
portunity does not allow us to judge of their merits. 
Floral Hall was simple in its structure, and with 
less elaborate embellishment than some of its prede¬ 
cessors of former years, but was greatly admired for 
its simple and graceful attractions, the interior being 
freely and profusely lined with evergreens. It was de¬ 
signed and completed within a few days notice, by W. 
B. Smith of Syracuse, of the firm of Thorp, Smith & 
Hanchett. We are sorry it could not have been better 
filled, although there were several excellent collections 
of fruits and flowers. The largest contributors of these 
were Hamilton White and A. Monroe of Syracuse, and 
Thorp, Smith & Hanchett, who occupied long lines 
of tables and shelves with an extensive collection 
of apples and pears, and a profuse display of roses, 
verbenas, dahlias, petunias, &c., and a large mass of 
plants in pots. A. S. Moss of Fredonia, presented an 
excellent collection of native grapes, large, handsomely 
grown, and well ripened, and among them the best 
specimens of the Concord we have seen of the growth 
of this State. G. E. Ryckman of Chautauque Co., ex¬ 
hibited 10 varieties of native grapes, mostly fine and 
well ripened, and J. M. Mattison of Tompkins Co., sev¬ 
eral varieties. One of the finest collections of exotic 
grapes was exhibited by Hamilton White of Syracuse. 
Fine Diana and Rebecca grapes were presented by 
Wm. Brocksbank of Hudson. Excellent cranberries 
were brought by D. L. Halsey of Cayuga, and N. Hill 
of Steuben. One of the rarest and most valuable col¬ 
lections in the entire hall, was the contribution of pears 
and plums from Ellwanger & Barry of Rochester— 
some of the specimens of pears were really superb. 
