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STATE AGEICULTUKAL SOCIETY 
A. T. Bates & Co., Chicago, 111., Wood Sawing Machine.Diploma. 
A. T. Bates & Co., Chicago, Ill., Sulky Revolving Rake.Diploma. 
A. T. Bates & Co., Chicago. Ill., Eureka Cutting Box. .Diploma. 
J. C. Frazer, Tafton, Cast Steel Crossing Baa.Diploma. 
Firmin & Billings, Madison, Steel Crossing Plow.Honorable Mention. 
E. Children, Lancaster, Badger Cultivator.Diploma. 
Henry Howe, Oneona, One Horse Cultivator.Diploma. 
J. E. Frazer, Tafton, Hawkeye Sulky Cultivator.Diploma. 
C. S, Briggs, Chicago, Model of Patent Harrow.Honorable Mention . 
N. W. Gordon, Waupun, Model of Lumber Wagon.Honorable Mention. 
David M. P. Jones, Union, Stump Extractor.-Diploma. 
G. B. Gibson, Baraboo, Patent Feeder.Diploma. 
D. P. Leonard, Union City, Mich., Hop Frame.Diploma. 
Howies & Preston, Orfordville, Rock Co., Water Elevator.Diploma. 
C. Ostrander, Lodi, Henmauses Farm Gate.Diploma.- 
Wilson & Converse, Beloit, Force Pump...Diploma. 
Aaron Huyck, Lima, Sheboygan County, Churn.Diploma. 
Z. S. Doty, Madison, Churn.Honorable Mention. 
B. Goldenberger, Madison, Cider Mill, (Buckeye).Diploma. 
Doty Bros., Janesville, Washing Machine.Diploma. 
A. C. Stannard, Milton, Washing Machine.Honorable Mention. 
Doty Bros., Janesville, Clothes Wringer.Honorable Mention. 
John Bush, Whitewater, Esterly’s Broad Cast Seed Sower and Culti¬ 
vator.Diploma. 
Doty Bros., Janesville, Washer and Wringer combined.Diploma. 
J. Bern, Elliott, Ind., Patent Portable Fence, Tillinghast Patent... .Diploma. 
L. A. Lilcoln. Columbus, Sulky Plow.Diploma. 
M. R. Jones, Fairfield, Subsoil Lifter Attachment.Diploma. 
M. A. Sawyer, Sparta, Little Giant Grain Screen.Diploma. 
E. E.' Kellogg, Rome,N. Y., Stock Pump.Diploma. 
Abbott & Hall, Madison, Potato Digger.Diploma. 
Rose & Coo-gswell, Detroit, Adjustable Hoes, do Vice Clamps.Diploma. 
Peter Low°Cherry Valley, N. Y., Seeder, Cultivator and Roller-Diploma. 
S. D. Carpenter, Madison, Automatic Grain Binder, special notice. See 
REPORT OP COMMITTEE. 
In reference to Carpenter’s Automatic Grain Binder, your committee feel 
that something more than a mere “ First Prize ” is due. Without doubt, 
this machine, contrary to adverse opinions, founded on a great number of 
failures in various parts of the country, is destined to take its rank among 
the substantial labor-saving machines so long looked for by the agriculturist. 
The machine is calculated to do all the work, from the cutting of the grain to 
the binding, by the aid of only a driver. So far as the binding is concerned, 
the machine seems to work perfectly, binding the bundles neatly, and drop¬ 
ping them gracefully to the ground when bound. 
It not only dispenses with five field hands, but by a “ false bottom,” will 
save it is estimated, from five to ten bushels of shelled grain per day, which 
would otherwise go to the ground as wasted. This feature seems a decided 
disederatum, and should recommend the Binder to general.use, if for no oth¬ 
er reason. The whole machinery seems simple, and not liable to get out of 
repair. The inventor has also a very simple pair of nippers, provided with a 
spring, that cut the wire and draw it instantly from the bundle, thus dis¬ 
pensing with whatever objection there maybe to the wire being in the straw. 
On the whole, your committee take great pleasure in recommending this 
Grain Binder to the trial of all interested. 
(Signed.) IRA MILTMORE, 
RUFUS CHENEY, 
H. G. GOODNOUGH, 
Committee. 
The foregoing is a correct copy of the official report on file in my office. 
J. W. HOYT, Sec. State Agricultural Society. 
