1852. 
THE CULTIVATOR. 
165 
MS®! 1PSSH2HWEH SWi $@41 
IPANY, 
1NT RAIL ROAD HORSE POWER (PATENTED FEBRUARY 24, 1852); 
|>use and Sale Rooms, Nos. 369 and 371 Broadway, 
. Y. 
i i, we would say, that in the test where there were but seventy-nine 
A (inst-ead of one hundred, as erroneously stated by the committee, in 
[ port,) we were required, much against our convictions of justice, 1o 
| our team, and use in our turn the very team from the other Powers, 
ft after doing the other’s work, and wholly unused to working our slow 
| requiring their owner at their heads to keep them back, and from 
'•overboard, as they were inclined to do—no harness being used; there- 
jlvantaging us to the extent of eleven minutes with the seventy-nine 
|i, or a little over seven sheaves per minute, instead of ten, as we had 
idly done with our own team. These facts, together with those of the 
je and Bonnet of their Thresher being raised for the lest; also, that of 
pwer slipping its gear, flying its band , stopping them nearly ten minutes 
ir, in the middle of the test, (which was allowed by the committee, 
| reducing their working time to eight minutes, or nearly ten sheaves per 
(, just equal to our ordinary work during the whole Fair,) we think 
(conclusively settle the question of superiority: and we hazard nothing 
lg the committee will not deny one of these statements. We may here 
:, that we consider the published report imperfect, and that justice’to the 
i;teeaswell as ourselves, requires the publication of these facts. 
' he Fair of the Michigan State Agricultural Society, in 1850, 
; eived Twenty Dollars for the largest and best collection of Implements; 
Diploma for our Horse Power. The Premium of Ten Dollars being 
:d the Wheelers’ Power. 
351, at the same Society’s Annual Fair, we were again in com- 
i with the same Power, and were unanimously awarded its Highest and 
emium, being Ten Dollars and Diploma, (and this, too, at the hands of 
inittee, the majority owning and using the competing Powers on their 
for superior construction, efficiency, and ease for team—thus redeem- 
reputation from the effects of the adverse decision of the previous year. 
At the Fair of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, in 1851), we 
were again in competition with the Wheeler Power; and each received a 
like Discretionary Premium, being a Silver Medal and Diploma—the First 
and only Premium being awarded to a Lever Power—Taplin’s Patent. 
At the Fair of the same Board of Agriculture, in 1851, a like com¬ 
petition, with similar result—the only Premium being awarded to the same 
Lever Power as before. 
At the Fair of the State Agricultural Society of Pennsylvania, 
in 1851, (being their first Fair,) we were awarded a Diploma for superior Bail 
Road Power—the First and only Premium being awarded to a Rack and 
Pinion Railway Power made within that State, which was more perfectly fitted 
and finished in all its running parts than any similar implement ever publicly 
exhibited, working with the least possible friction—while our own was made 
as usual, "and never used for threshing twenty bushels of grain before being 
exhibited at this Fair. We shall again try our chance the coming season, and 
hope to succeed in sustaining the good name there which it enjoys elsewhere. 
At the Fair of the American Institute, in 1851, we were awarded the 
only Premium, their ‘ f Gold Medal,” for our Power, competing with olhers. 
At the Provincial Fair held at Niagara, (Canada West) in 1850, 
we were awarded a gratuity of Ten Dollars and a Diploma for our Power, on 
exhibition with the Wheelers and others—the First Premium not being award¬ 
ed out of the Provinces, but to a manufacturer in Montreal. 
At the same Provincial Fair, in 1851, we did not compete at all—the 
Wheeler Power alone being exhibited from the States. 
Our Power has also been exhibited at nearly all the County Fairs of this 
and several other States, during the past two years, and in no case where they 
have been entered for competition and a premium awarded to any one, have 
ours failed to receive the award; while numerours premiums and awards 
have been received wherever they have been exhibited. 
