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introduced into tins county four years since from Western Ne"w 

 York, by Orrin Curtiss, of Sheffield, and is the kind that is now 

 generally raised, and is probably the best for our soil and cli- 

 mate. Mr. Curtiss has measured and threshed very carefully 

 one acre of his wheat, from which he had forty-two bushels and 

 thirty-four pounds, of sixty pounds to the bushel, of most beau- 

 tiful wheat. 



Statemont of Mark Laird. 



Winter Wheat. — The piece contains five acres blue stem 

 wheat, on oat stubble, fourteen loads of manure spread on to the 

 acre, and ploughed in; sown 1st September, seed soaked in 

 brine, and rolled in lime ; soil, loam ; measured and threshed 

 one acre, and had thirty-nine bushels and eight and a half pounds, 

 sixty pounds to the bushel. 



Statement of Elisha Kellogg. 



Winter Wheat. — Blue stem wheat, one acre, on pasture^ 

 ploughed once, and sown immediately, first week in September, 

 with two bushels of seed ; no manure, soil, sandy loam ; had 

 thirty-eight bushels and nine quarts on the acre. 



Spring Wheat.- — This crop will not compare with winter 

 wheat, either in quantity or quality. It is, however, a good 

 crop on some soils, and in some sections of our county where 

 winter wheat cannot be successfully grown. It does best in a 

 moist strong soil. 



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The first premium on spring wheat, we award to Charles 

 Hinckley, of Lee. This piece of wheat was sown after corn, 

 about the 10th of April, two bushels seed to the acre; soil, 

 clayey loam. 



The second premium on the second best acre of spring wheat^ 

 we give to Zacheus Candee, of Sheffield. Tea spring wheat, 

 sown after corn, about the middle of April ; two bushels seed 

 to the acre ; soil, loam. 



The third premium on spring wheat, we award to J. E. 

 Lawton, Jr., of Great Barrington. This wheat was sown the 

 25th of April, after turnips, two and a half bushels of seed to 

 the acre ; soil, clayey loam. 

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