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104 REPORTS ON AWARDS. 16. A. J. Sweeney & Son, Wheeling, W. Va., U. S. MOWER AND REAPER. Report.—Commended for simplicity of construction, durability, ease in management, and 17. Porter Blanchard’s Sons, Concord, N. H., U. S. BLANCHARD CHURN. Report.—It is a good chum, and well fitted for the purpose intended. 18. Barnard, Bishop, & Barnards, Norwich, England. GARDEN FURNITURE (IN IRON). Report.—Commended for variety, convenience, good work, and fitness for the purpose intended. Report.—Commended as an apparatus for hatching out ostrich eggs in a simple and efficient manner, and for keeping the young during the critical period of their early life. • The invention and use of this apparatus, and the treatment of the eggs and young of the ostrich by Mr. Douglass, have added a most important industry to the world, and, in addition to averting the threatened extermination of this species, have greatly multiplied its numbers and increased the supply of its feathers for commercial purposes. These can now be taken year by year from the same (domesticated) bird, instead of involving its de struction for a single -crop. . 20. Goteborg Machine Manufacturing Co. (Limited), Goteborg, Sweden. STEEL PLOWS. Report. Commended for good workmanship, and fitness for their intended purpose. SIGNING JUDGES OF SUPPLEMENT TO GROUP XXIII. The figures annexed to the names of the Judge indicate the reports written by them respectively. H. K. Oliver, 1, 4. 6. 7. l8 - - M. Wilkins, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, n, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. J. Fritz, 8, eo. Spencer t. Balr#), 19. cheapness. 19. A. Douglass Hilton, Grahamstown, Cape of Good Hope. OSTRICH INCUBATING MACHINE.