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Also the Excelsior turbine water wheel, which they claim combines many 
excellencies not attained in any hitherto made. We believe it, after a close 
examination, to be a good wheel, and far superior to many that are better 
advertised. 
Also a gang lath mill, which makes many lath where the old process 
makes but one, and must supersede the old method of manufacture. 
Also an automatic bolter for sawing bolts, which was not at work, so that 
we could not fairly judge of its merits. 
Also a gang bolter at work, upon which the bolts are placed upon an 
endless chain which carries them to the saws with great rapidity. It must 
make a revolution in the lath trade, saving as it does many hundred per 
cent, in the cost of handling, over the old method with which we are fa¬ 
miliar. We believe it to be the best adjunct yet added to the lath busi¬ 
ness, and eminently worthy a diploma. 
Threshing Machines.—C. F. Duvall of Milwaukee, exhibited two ma¬ 
chines, well and substantially made, the distinguishing characteristics be¬ 
ing a movable side gear, so that the horse-power can be set in any position 
to accommodate the separator. Also an extension tumbling r6d, which can 
be moved to make up a variation in distance from an half inch to four feet, 
between the horse-power and separator. 
E. E. Owens & Co. also exhibited two machines with steam power and 
horse power, both excellent machines, with improvements, by Langworthy 
& Owens, the principle of which is, relieving the cylinder from driving the 
balance of the machinery, through a shaft running from the side gear to- 
tlie beater shaft, which gets its motion from gearing. They are al.so run with 
Langworthy’s Patent Safety Knuckles; entirely safe from accident, so com¬ 
mon in the old kind of knuckles. Also a Pitt’s mounted pow r er with Lang- 
worthy’s improvements, and a new power called the “ Little Monitor,” with 
an entire cast iron frame and mounted on wheels. 
The Geiser Threshing Machine Company of Racine, had two machines, 
substantially made, designed to run with steam or horse pow r er. These ma¬ 
chines dispense with the apron, and have some other improvements in the 
sieves, etc. 
Case & Co. of Racine, exhibited one machine. They are .well known man¬ 
ufacturers; and claim to raise and lower the straw stacker while the ma¬ 
chine is in motion, which is quite a desideratum. 
C. Aultman & Co. had also one of their machines on the ground exhibit¬ 
ed by their agent, Walter C. Barnes, of Freeport, Ill. This machine is 
well and substantially made, and has many friends where it is used. 
S. Bush of Milwaukee, exhibited the Buffalo Pitts’ Threshing Machine ; 
they are too well known to require any special mention at the hands of the 
committee. 
B.L. Corss, of Milwaukee, entered J. B. Smith’s “Boiler Feed Water 
Regulator,” a valuable piece of machinery for keeping the water at exactly 
the right height in the boiler. It must have the effect wherever used to 
