GENERAL REPORT OF THE JUDGES OF GROUP IX. hair filling, interlaced by a warp of cotton thread. This is accom plished by a little machine which could be packed in a box two inches square. This machine, which is detachable for repairs, is attached to a loom, both the machine and loom being operated by power, and it forms the pivot upon which the whole manufacture turns. It is essen tial that the machine should pick up but one hair at a time. To ac complish this, the picker in the machine has a groove or slit invisible to the naked eye, so that the whole of this manufacture turns upon a point which can only be seen with a microscope. The loom is so adjusted that the movement of the web is arrested until the picker lifts up its hair. The end of the hair is seized by a rod, the end of which operates like a thumb and finger, and is carried transversely between the warps. This little apparatus is attached to four hundred distinct looms in the establishment of the company. One girl tends ten looms, and this one girl, by means of this machinery, does the work requiring twenty operatives on hand-looms. By means of these appliances, this single establishment, employing only 150 work-people, produces 600,000 yards of haircloth per annum, each loom weaving five yards per day. It consumes annually 450,000 pounds of horse hair, equivalent to the tails of 600,000 horses. The large exhibit showed the unquestionable superiority of the machine-made goods to the ordinary hand-loom fabrics. All the classes assigned to the Judges of this group, in the depart ment of wool, have now been considered, except that of wool ma chinery. While all the varieties of wool fabrics were well illustrated, the wool machinery exhibited but very few of the modern appliances by which the fabrics are made. The fullest description of the ma chines exhibited would give but a faint idea of the improved machines now in use. To describe even those exhibited would require space and means not at our disposal, and would be unsuited to the popular object of these reports.