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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
corn sheller, that promises to become valuable. Diploma re¬ 
commended. 
REAPERS AND MOWERS. 
Of the numerous articles in this class that were on exhibi¬ 
tion, there were two reapers, one mower, and six reapers and 
mowers combined, three of the reapers being self-rakers. A 
practical trial of the comparative merits of the several ma¬ 
chines was not expected, nor were any premiums offered by 
the Soeiety on this class of machinery; and your committee 
can only state, that on a careful examination of the numerous 
specimens on exhibition, they were very favorably impressed 
with the substantial appearance and excellence of workman¬ 
ship displayed, and skill and ingenuity in the improvements in 
the several machines. 
Among these improvements are those that relate to a great¬ 
er perfection in self-raking; relieving side draft, facility in 
turning corners, and in changing from reaper to mower, and 
again to a reaper, as required by the farmer. Your committee 
will merely call attention to some of the many improvements 
made in these machines during the last season, as a castor 
wheel to support one side of the machine to facilitate turning, 
in the McCormick machine; the facility of raising and lower¬ 
ing the Falvey's Badger State machine, and in readily chang¬ 
ing it from a reaper to a mower; the novel and compact mode 
of folding the Buckeye machine for transit, and mode of ar¬ 
ranging the gear wheels; the combination of the well-known 
excellent qualities of the Seymour & Morgan and Palmer & 
Williams machines; the new and simple mode of operating a 
rake in the Esterly machine ; and the compact arrangement of 
the gear in an iron frame, the easy control, by the driver, in 
raising and lowering the sickle, the facility of its adaptation to 
uneven surfaces, and the general simplicity of the Kirby ma¬ 
chine, as worthy the careful consideration of those who use so 
indispensible an article as the reaper and mower. 
Your committee will only add that they are much gratified 
