Exhibition—Superintendents' beports. 
I2 5 
make this part of our exhibitions an entire success but provisions 
for actual trials in the field. 
For full particulars see report of the committee. 
In conclusion, let us all give the Wisconsin State Agricultural 
Society our encouragement and support, that the future may de¬ 
monstrate fully, that time, labor and money, expended by the state 
or society have been a blessing to all. 
REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE. 
Milwaukee Sept. 28, 1873. 
To Maj. Rufus Cheney, Superintendent of Machinery Department, Wisconsin 
State Fair Exhibition: 
The judges appointed to examine and report on the various articles of 
machinery placed on exhibition, respectfully submit the following report: 
At the outset the judges encountered a task that should properly he divided 
between several sets of judges. The display of machinery and implements 
was so extensive (embracing near 2,000 articles) that no one set of judges 
could satisfactorily to themselves and to exhibitors, do even partial justice. 
The most we could do in the two days allotted, after we received the class 
book (a large share of the time it having rained), was to pass over the acres of 
machines and implements, devoting but a moment’s attention to each 
machine. 
To obviate the difficulties in the future, under which the judges labored, 
we respectfully submit the following recommendations: 
That the labor of examining the various machines and implements be 
•divided between judges appointed separately, on the following divisions: 
1st. On reapers and mowers. 
2d. On threshers, horse powers, stump machines, farm gates, hay tedders, 
■and horse rakes. 
3d. On plows, harrows, cultivators of all kinds, lawn mowers, bog cutters, 
land rollers, lumber wagons, sleds, drills, seeders, etc. 
4th. On engines, wood and metal working machinery, and tools of all 
kinds. 
5th. On churns, cider mills, washing machines, and including all domestic 
hand machinery or tools, and all farm land tools. 
6 th. On miscellaneous implements, including hay presses, wind mills, 
pumps, rams, and all tools, machines and implements not included in the 
foregoing divisions. 
It seems to us, from a practical standpoint, that these general divisions of 
labor would not only secure more satisfactory results to the credit of the so¬ 
ciety, but also for the benefil; and satisfaction of exhibitors. 
To this class of persons the society owes much for the popular interest 
taken in the annual exhibitions. The exhibition of even the smallest im- 
