124 Wisconsin state agricultural society. 
MACHINERY DEPARTMENT. 
BY VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY, SUPERINTENDENT. 
Again I have the honor, herewith, to present the report of the 
committee on machinery, which will be found instructive to the 
manufacturer, interesting to the exhibitor and beneficial to the 
society, as well as profitable to all interested in the promotion of 
this branch of industry. The superintendent of this department 
takes pleasure in recommending its careful perusal, also the adop¬ 
tion of its suggestions for the future good of the society. 
The improvements made last fall for the convenience of exhib¬ 
itors in this department were duly appreciated, as our well filled 
“ power hall ” fully demonstrated. About double the number of 
machines were in operation, as compared with any previous year.. 
With ample and well regulated power, furnished the second time 
by John Brownell of the Dayton, Ohio, Works, a good floor not 
heretofore provided, all machinery moved with the regularity of a 
well regulated shop, giving entire satisfaction to exhibitors and 
spectators, and at the same time forming one of the chief attrac¬ 
tions of our fair. 
Among the prominent exhibitors in this department were A. 
O. Packard, Arnold & Yale, E. P. Allis, and Filer & Co., Milwau¬ 
kee, Powers of Fort Atkinson, and Stevens of Chicago. The 
interest these gentlemen take in our annual fairs, proves the bene¬ 
fit to be derived from exhibitions of this character. The encour¬ 
agement given by our society has been appreciated and improved. 
Those wishing to advertise their machinery have steadily in¬ 
creased their exhibitions, until this department of our fair excels, 
both in quantity and quality, that of most other states in the west- 
Also in the display of agricultural implements there has been a 
steady increase, notwithstanding the unfavorable weather during 
the week of the fair. 
Every kind of machinery intended to lighten the labor of the 
farmer was fully represented, and the exhibitor, though exposed 
to the cold, the rain and the mud, stood hero like by his machine,, 
ready to point the inquirer to the special advantages his possessed 
over every other competing machine. Nothing is now wanting to- 
