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with the excellent quality of the machinery that came under 
their observation for examination. 
Ira Miltimore, ^ 
Geo. S. Skinner, 
C. W. Olney, 
J. M. May, 
S. S. Daggett, 
Mr. May, being an exhibitor of wind mills and pumps, did 
not act with the committee on these articles. 
► Committee. 
MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF SORGHUM SYRUP, &c. 
The Committee on machinery for the manufacture of Sorghum 
Syrup and Sugar, regret the report they are obliged to make 
to the Society. 
Upon our books we found three entries of “ Sugar Mills," 
one “ Evaporator,” one entry of “ Syrup,” and one “ Show of 
Sugar Cane, Sorghum and “ Imphee.” On receipt of the entry 
• book, your Committee could find simply one of Cook’s Evapo¬ 
rators. On Wednesday evening and Thursday morning, three 
mills made their appearance in the same neighborhood, and 
the owners were engaged in putting them together. Such was 
the State of the case on Friday morning at 10 o’clock. The 
members of the Committee were fully aware of the efficiency 
of the apparatus as far as it went. The mills when properly 
erected were fully competent to their task, and Cook’s Evapo¬ 
rator was sufficient to use up all the juice which one mill 
could extract. They are such as deserve the attention of 
the farmers of the State, and will be all that is required for 
their use, except what they make on the farm. 
It is true that, on Friday at 2 o’clock P. M., the Mill of 
Mr. Richardson commenced the work of grinding, and boiling 
in the Cook’s Evaporator. This certainly is not work “ during 
the Fair." We are required to award premiums “ only on the 
exhibition of a superior machine for the manufacture of sugar 
and syrup, and a detailed statement of the whole process, suit¬ 
able for publication in the Transactions of the Society.”— 
Neither the entries made nor any combination of them, came 
up to this requirement. Molasses might be made with them, 
