, 1862-07-26

these figures before them we ask, who has the
right to withhold any facts that would be
beneficial to either inventors Or the public.
Certainly the State Board can have no claim
IN this direction. It is, Of course, right that
the successful machine should be exhibited at
the State Fair, but the right to compel the
unsuccessful ones to do SO, may we'll be ques-
toned. Thus entailiug on them the further
expense and compel them to furm the til
unph, like prisoners attached to the car Of
some successful general.
Of what value is this public trial Of what
use to invite farmers to leave their homes aud
work at this busy season aud then not per-
NIT them TO examine for themselves, to with
hold from them the tests applied? The re-
suit Of trials OF draft by the dynameter, the
scale Of points by which they make the test,
are only known to the board. To cali this
pubic trial is but an insult to the good sense
OF the farmers, who have incurred the expense
and Inconvenience to be present. The whole
proceeding is unusual and nnheard Of before
in the history Of similar trials This trial is
supposed to have been gotten up for the bene-
fit of the farmer as we'll as the inventor Of la
bor-saving machines and implements, and
the public innocent1Y supposed that a
thorough trial would he had. but such is not
assumed the duties Of committee men no. one
Of whom acting, is qualified for the RESPONSE
blc duties, over any ordinary farmer. The
president is dealer in dry goods, aud proba-
bly, well yersed in pins, needles and toys, but
has no clains as a mechanic or apFacticAl
farmer, so Of other members, however, honest
they may be, have not the requisite qualifca-
tion to judge of material, durability and adapt
ation Of the working pasts Of the segerA ms
chimes and cannpt give them those thor
have been promised, They have called
in no experts, they drive from the
investigation all others, the inquisitive farmer
is not allowed to SO into the field, the me-
chapic must stand aside, the members Of the
agricultural and secular press must put up
criticisms must be allowed, for it might in
t1ict an injury on the agricultural society Of
the State, q society that has been fostered by
the State legislature, and which the press has
endorsed as one of the useful institutions.
But we cannot fold our arms Ia silence and
permit such an outrage upon the inventors
and manufacturers OF these Supplements, made
doubly 60 at this time, WHEN the war Is taking
from US our most valuable labor.
The inventors have voluntarily made up q
thorough scientific trial, ard it is due them
| that their very reasonable expectations should
be, in part at least, res 1ized. Sufficient pro-
grees has been made In the trial to show that
| no effort has been made, no mechanical eX-
| perte have been called in to assist, and in
| charity We arc led to the belief that the board
| have not as yet fnlly made up or adopted even
| u scale points. We intend to give au impair
tial history Of the trial, so that what advan-
tage may accrue to the public shall not be
] withheld.
| THE MOWER TRIAL.
This afternoon tho great trial Of the COM
| bineu reapers and n1o~ers-as moWers-eane
| Oft. The weather Was tine, the crowd of spec-
| tators rather large, the hurses all large aud in
| fine order, the machines we'll oiled, the COM
n1ittee with their coats of, the spectators
wearing summer smiles, and your correspond
| anti Ef1ho or,i q 7oA Hot~
| The acre Of grass had been Allotted to each
machine, being strip forty rods long and
| iour wide, SEPT rated from each other bY the
turning Of O double swathe. When at three
O'Clock Col. Capron swung his hat as the sig.
nal, away went the teams with the several
from behind the rapid flying and keen I'D ,ed
sickles. Some trotted, some amnled, aud a
few walked at their fastest gait. The specta.
| tors gathered in Knots near their fayorites dis
cusslng the chances Of the race. Now MI.
chine is clogged-lt again starts off and yun-
der is Ano1her-qu;cklF the drivers pull she
offending grass ftomthe polished sickles aud re-
sumo their SPEED The spectators become more
and more Interested as the ribbons Of standing
grass were rapidly moWn aown- In some in'
stances the more haste the worst speed, IS seer
in the constant clogging, oecasioned bf the ex.
tra motion. Rugg, of Ottawa, with his great
awkward, amblng machine, was in close con
test with the heavy side draft OF Mccormick
both machines drawn By powerful hotaes, =
now c1ogging, now ambliog, nov trotting, the
wide .swath following them in sheet OF nea
mown hay. Curtis, Of Chicago, was the only
ofspassionate driver, his powerful team kep
s1eady walk as the cleaning sickle spfesa
ont the wide swath, h,-on be vent, more sloa
but sure, no cloggiug impeded his; progress
! and In twenty eight MINUTES his task wa:
done, and nobly done
The race between Rugg .and McCornics
Was rapidly narrowing down, but the forms
came ont ahead, having completed his plat il
twenty-tnur minutes working time, and on
minute ahead OF his more heavy draft compel
ios- One after another closed up tAei
swaths, and the reeking 1eanls had an oppoz
t0nit3 to breathe.
This might be called the first poiu
in the scale Of contestants By which tu
rtlative merits Of the machines were 10 b.
tested, and appeared to disc1oae the fact tha
the Whole thing was' intended TO be decide
By speed alone, The tie1d selected was 8 asmootl
botIom, the grass standing upright with abou
: one and a half tons to the acre, and no fiels
fur 3 race could have been more happily 81;
uated. It Was not adapted to test tue abt1ft
! OF the machine, far the most Indifferent on
. .. could not fail to do fair work under suca Cit
: cumstances but We must cuuf-ss that no II
| considerable part OF the work was badly don
, from the use Of the high speed, which hi
demonstrated that mowers IS at present coz
! s1ructed, are not adapted to this Hind Of excl
; | else, and Inventors must turn their atteltio
to this point If the public here decide that /
shall hereafter form an element In tue haryes
!. field.
: In the tril Of respers tomorrow we sha
. hope to see more rational system prevail
: and some useful trui1 developed: but tnus Fl
/ the trial lis one nf the Inuat EFan8narr.nk nDu