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hearers. This is the talk for farmers. They want none of 

 youi' high wrouo-ht, speculative disquisitions on super-phos- 

 phates, and the like. 



I have only time to express my acknowledgments, for the 

 kind attentions I received from the president and secretary of 

 the society. 



John W. Proctor. 



BERKSHIRE SOCIETY. 



Having been honored by your Board, with the appointment 

 of delegate to the annual autumnal exhibition and show of the 

 Berkshire County Society, I beg leave briefly to submit some 

 of the results of my observations. I considered myself 

 peculiarly fortunate, in being delegated to this frontier county, 

 as I had long had a desire to extend my acquaintance with that 

 favored section of the Commonwealth. My pursuits in life 

 not having run in an agricultural line, I may not be able fully 

 and justly to appreciate all the excellencies of the exhibition, 

 or speak of them with the authority of a practical, or even 

 theoretical farmer. Yet, there was so much that was undeni- 

 ably good, and worthy of admiration, that I must liave been 

 profoundly stupid, as well as ignorant, not to have had some 

 appreciation, at least, of what I witnessed with so much pleas- 

 ure and satisfaction. 



The exhibition was held in Pittsiield, one of the most beauti- 

 ful towns, in all our dear New England, and in one of the 

 grandest counties that the sun shines upon. If nature has made 

 Berkshire the most magnificent county in the Commonwealth, 

 art, as if not to be outdone, has rendered her one of the most 

 beautiful. Take any of her hill-tops, as a stand point, the eye 

 never rested upon a more splendid panorama. Travel over 

 her surface, and everywhere evidences are present, of intelli- 

 gence, wealth, industry, social culture and successful husbandry. 



