Show the tho machine for testing the draft was manipulated throughout by mr boutz goutz I 1 did not understand anything about it but was waa afterwards told that trickery was practiced at this test the fact that mr mattison had a three horse horbe team above averages average which could not work the gilpin pin without being whipped unmercifully and gave out at last shows more of the heaviness of draft on the gilpin plow than a 41 manipulation of the dynamometer does doss of lightness I 1 am ready to meet mr mattison in a chair fair field trial between the gilpin and the weir sulky plows at any time and any place providing all arrangements are made before the trial and in writing and an rested committee appoint appointed eds as I 1 do not desire to trust myself again to such an aa unprincipled and ungentle un gentlemanly conree course as was practised practiced by my opponent at the trial on the ath inet K R warnock |