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with great expedition. The Hudson River boats will 
also afl'ord every facility for the transportation of arti¬ 
cles and'passengers. 
From the northern parts of the State, Vermont, New 
Hampshire and Canada, the facilities will be such as to 
enable exhibitors and visitors to reach Saratoga without 
delay, and will afford to them facilities that have never 
before been enjoyed for attending the Exhibitions of the 
Society. 
The Show Grounds will be located near the village, 
and will be arranged in the most convenient manner for 
the accommodation of exhibitors and visitors. Cover¬ 
ing will be provided for all the stock exhibited, to pro¬ 
tect from the weather; and every exertion will be made 
to have the preparations superior to any that have here¬ 
tofore been made for the exhibitions of the Society. 
The keepers of public houses have entered into an en¬ 
gagement that their prices shall be only those charged 
to ordinary visitors; and from the large number of 
houses, and the range of prices from 75 cents to $2 per 
day, during the Fair, there can be no doubt of persons 
securing accommodations, both as to price and fare, that 
will be satisfactory. 
The Executive Committee will endeavor, in every 
respect to have the Exhibition such as will, in all its 
characteristics, sustain the well earned reputation of the 
Farmers, Breeders and Mechanics of the State; and they 
have assurances, which they cannot doubt will be re¬ 
alized, that they will be most cordially sustained by the 
citizens of the State. B. P. Johnson, Cor. Sec'y. 
Trial of Implements. 
We noticed last week, the premiums offered by the 
Rensselaer County Agricultural Society, for the best 
Reaping Machine, and the best Mowing Machine. Those 
wishing to compete must become members of the Socie¬ 
ty, and enter their machines before June 15, which may 
be done by addressing B. B. Kirtland, Greenbush, 
Bens. Co., N. Y., who will furnish all desired informa¬ 
tion, and give due notice of the time of trial'. The ma¬ 
chines to which premiums are awarded, are required to 
be exhibited at the next fair of the Society to entitle 
them’to the premiums. The committee appointed by 
the Society to conduct the trial, consists of 
B. B. Kirtland, Chairman. 
Richard J. Knowlson, • I. T. Grant, 
Benj. Starbuck, . Martin Springer. 
The scale of points by which the machines are to be 
judged, is as follows: 
1. Cost of machine. 
2. Simplicity of construction. 
3. Durability. 
4. Effective power; or power required fora given 
amount of work, including the necessary attendance. 
5. Rapidity of action; or amount, of work performed 
in a given time. 
6. Quality of work, and the manner of leaving the 
grass or grain. 
7. Facility of management, including time and room 
required for turning. 
8. Adaptation to uneven surfaces, and to cutting at 
different heights. 
Competition is open to the world, and as the points of 
merit by which the machines are to be adjudged are 
thus distinctly laid down, the fanning public may rea¬ 
sonably expect to derive reliable results from this trial. 
When the day of trial is fixed upon, notice will be 
given. 
Arabian Horses in Maine. —It would seem from 
communications in the Maine Farmer, that a full 
blooded Arabian Stallion is owned in Gorham, in that 
state. He is the horse that was presented by the Sultan 
of Muscat to Hon. David Pingree, of Salem. It fur¬ 
ther states, that Mr. Bennet, of Salem, has three stud 
horses of the get of (< Imaum,” strongly resembling 
their sire. M. L. Hayes, of Farmington, N. H., has 
also three colts of the same stock_ Granite Farmer. 
Another Review of the Geneva Trial 
OF HORSE POWERS, &c. 
I hereby make my statement in relation to the Geneva Trial 
of Machines. 
In the first place, I have a few' words to say in relation to 
ti e report, and also the course of the committee. I would 
here state, that there was only.threc men that constituted 
the examining committee on Threshing Machines; they were 
J. S. Gould, J. E. Holmes and Gen. Harmon. The report of 
the committee was not according to the record as taken at 
the trial, and kept by Mr. Gould. They make a reduction 
of more than 30 per cent in the operation of my machine 
from the record as they kept' it at the time; .and"this was the 
only experiment, excepting ihe threshing, that had any merits 
in it. Mr Gould told me, just as I started to leave Geneva, 
that in looking over his minutes, he thought that they had 
made a mistake, as his account gave me more power than 
in some other experiments, and placed my machine ahead of 
the others. I wrote to him afterward, and proposed to have 
the experiment tried over again at the State Fair at Utica, 
which he assented to, and I believe that the notice of the 
samrwas given to the others. 
I took my machine to the Fair as agreed, and the others 
were brought there also When ih'e committee came to 
make the trial, they took an entire different course from what 
they had done at Geneva, and I could not prevail upon them 
to try the Geneva experiment over again, lo see whether they 
had made the blunder that they report was made, (or the one 
that was made by their report.) it seemed as if they now 
knew' whaF course was necessary (from the Geneva trial) to 
take to make the experiinenf appear favorable to the Emery 
power: in this they were some disappointed, as their plan 
placed Badger’s ahead ; but ibis they got around by saying that 
Emery’s w'as made in a superior manner, which they could 
not say of mine. 
Their correction of the minutes as kept at Geneva, made 
it into an error, as was manifest to any observing person. 
Taking h as-they reported, it would only require a movement 
of the platform of If of a mile per hour; the persons on the 
power, and others looking on, could plainly see that they were 
walking much faster than that. 
There is another thing in relation to one of the committee, 
(Mr. Holmes) that, was not right in appearance, and tnat is, 
he said or stated, atthe State Fair, that Emery was to exhibit 
his machines, (the Dick anti-friction presses) at the Ohio 
' State Fair the next week ; this showed such a combination of 
interest, lhat there was some danger of having his judgment 
biassed in making up his report; to say the least of it, it made 
him liable to suspicion of partiality. 
After the committee had concluded upon their roport, and 
one of fhetn, Mr. Gould, had left, as I was informed, I called 
upon the other Two. (not as a committee,) to come and see if 
they had been justified in making the error (by correcting one 
as they said) in their report of the Geneva trial. One of 
them declined, the other promised to re-examine, but failed 
to do so for some cause or other. Thus much fpr the com¬ 
mittee and their report. 
I will now examine the experiments made at Geneva. In 
the first place, I will state that the machines, under review— 
lhat is mine, Emery’s and Badger’s—were all ^tew, and had 
not been used before. Emery’s had some things about it to 
please the eye of some lookers on, and perhaps some of the 
committee, such, for instance, as the turning of a holt and 
nut, all of no practical use, and rarely if ever done by any 
threshing machine builder. Emery obtained some .advantage 
over the rest, by having a team (belonging to one of the com¬ 
mittee, as I was informed,) employed for the week, which 
enabled him to keep experimenting with his machine, and to 
learn when it was ready for ttse^ and thereby smoothing up 
his machine to his advantage in the experiments to be made 
with it. He altered and repaired and experimented until 
Thursday afternoon, when he thrashed his ICO sheaves under 
the direction of the committee; this took him 17 minutes, with 
his concave raised three-fourths of an inch, consequently he 
did not thresh his grain clean from ihe^traw, as I learned the 
next day, by putting some of his straw through my machine. 
The next morning, I obtained a team lo make my experi¬ 
ment in threshing. This team had never Been on such a 
power before ; when they came, I put them on to sec if my 
power would work, not knowing anything of its operation 
only from appearance, as if was the first one of the kind that 
had ever been put in operation. To try it, I got some of the 
straw threshed by Emery the day before, and put it through 
my machine. I left my concave close to the cylinder, seeing 
that Emery did not thresh his clean with his up. 
The committee now determined to have the grain weighed 
in making the experiments. They allotted to me 954 lbs on 
my first trial, which took me 13 45 60th minutes, and gave 
200 lbs. wheat. On my second trial, I had 748 lbs, and was 9 
minutes in thrashing, and had 13G lbs. wheat, (not 166 as the 
eommittec reported ) This last 100 sheaves had two. kinds of 
