Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-03-06
Horticultural ano Domestic.
Great National Trial of Machinery,

And Implements of Every Description,
~ Pertaining TO agriculture, and House
hold Manufactures, at the Fifth 44nnudl
/, Fair of The United States Agricultural
Society, to be held at Louisville, Ky.,
during the Fail of 1857.
The Committee of the United States
Agricultural Society, appointed at the fifth
annual meeting, held at the Smithsonian
Institution, in the city Of Washington, on
the I4th of January, 1857, "to designate
the time and places and TO make all the
necessary arrangements for national trial
in the. field of Agricaltiral implements and
machinery, respectfully invite the inventors
and manufacturers of all articles, both in
the United States and foreign countries, to
participate in public trial, to be made at
Louisville, Kentucky, under the auspices of
the society, during the fall Of 1857.
This new arrangement for the exhibition
of agricultural implements and machinery
of all kinds in actual operation, results from
a conviction on the part of the Society, that
no Just award can be made, except upon q
practical working trial before competent
Judges; and the fullest opportunity will be
afforded to test the comparative merits of
the various machines that may be entered
as competitors for the awards, both a. re-
CARDS land for field implements and steam
power for stationary machinery.
A separate trial of reapers and mowers
will be made at the appropriate season,
special arrangements for which, as to time,
place, DC, will be announced at an early
date. ,s
is intended that this exhibition shall
be on the most extensive scale, for the pur-
pose Of testing the working qualities Of
these important implements moro thorough
,iy than has yet been done on any previous
occasion, either in the United States or
Europe. nU3s
All articles from foreign countries, inten-
ded for exhibition, may be consigned to the
"Agent Of the United States Agricultural
Society, Louisville. Kentucky" by whom
they will be received and stored free Of
charge. ,sst,sa
This brief announcement Of the proposed
trial is made at this early date, to afford the
most ample time and preparation and trans
mission Of machinery. A circular, contain
ing full particulars as to regulations, premi-
-ums, DC, will be issued as soon as prepared
BY the committee, and will be forwarded to
persons who may apply to the Secretary,
Henry 8. Olcott, American Institution, New
York. 4,
as To enable the Society to make arrange
ments on q sufficiently liberal scale, it is
requisite that the committee should know
what articles will be offered for competition
and they therefore request those inventors
and manufacturers, who may be disposed to
unite in the proposed trial, to communicate
their intentions TO the Secretary at their ear
licsf convenience.
!. Committee OF IMPLEMESTs AND MAeHI-
merry OF THE UNITED STATES AeRrrULruRAL
SocfEFY-Tench Tnghman, Oxford, Nd,
5c'tairman, John D. Lane. vassalboro, Me-,
J.,T. Warder, Springfield, Ohio; @. E. War
ing, jr.. American Institution, N. Y; Her
ry 8. 0icott, Westchester Farm School, N.
Y, Secretaries.
sa' Washington, jamie, 1857.