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able associates as I have had, and everywhere in his visits meets as 

 pleasant people, he may wish to view gardens year after year. 



Best Vegetable Garden by professional or hired gardener, H. T. Bobbins, 



Great Barrington. $5 



2d do. , William 0. Curtis, Lenox, 4 



3d do., William Wilson, Great Barrington, 3 

 Best Vegetable Garden not by professional or hired gardener, Frederick 



Dellert, Great Barrington, 5 



2d do.. William W. Norton, Great Barrington, 4 



3d do., Frank S. Rood, Sheffield, 3 



4th do., Ralph Little, Sheffield, 2 



5th do. , Frank Andrus, Sheffield, 2 



DISCRETIONARY. 



D wight Andrews Sheffield, 2 



Orren E. Clarke, Sheffield, 2 



Elisha Collins, Great Barrington, 2 



Dr. Charles Heath. Lee, 2 



Best Flower Garden, Mrs. Ralph Little, Sheffield, 5 



2d do., Mrs. Isaac H. Rice. Great Barrington. 4 



3d do., Mrs. Beers, Great Barrington, 3 



4th do. , Mrs. George W. Lester, Great Barrington, 2 



5th do., Miss Olive Saxton, Sheffield, 1 



HENRY DRESSER, ) 



MRS. E. L. BOARDMAN, \ Committee. 



MRS. JOHN B. HULL, ) 



FALL CKOPS. 



Whole number of entries, 176. Classed as follows : Five acres Corn, 13 ; three 

 acres Corn, 17 ; one acre Corn, 33 ; Sowed Corn, 6 ; planted Sweet Corn, 5 ; Buck- 

 wheat, 15 ; Potatoes 30 ; Beans, 10 ; Sugar Beets, 1 ; Mangel Wurtzels, 6 • Car- 

 rots, 4 ; Turnips, 6 ; Cabbage, 8 ; Farms, 40 acres, 5 ; Farms, 100 acres, 13. 



Your Committee on Fall Crops, having performed their duties to . 

 the best of their ability, respectfully submit the following report : 

 With few exceptions crops have been more or less injured by the 

 drought, which was quite as severe in the south as in the north part 

 of the county. In reviewing the Corn crop, we, as a rule obtained 

 very good weights, but a good many pieces were uneven in conse- 

 quence of the drought. There is a diversity of opinion in regard to 

 the kind of corn to plant, whether large, medium, or small, and to 

 the distance apart. We are fully convinced that the medium and 

 small twelve-rowed varieties give the best and most satisfactory crop 

 for this county. The larger varieties will give pretty good weights, 

 but the ears are not as a rule very well filled out. The fodder is 

 coarse, and, to our notion, the crop as a whole is not as desirable as 

 a variety that will fully mature. 



As to the distance apart, we cannot advocate too close planting, 

 or as we come to speak of it, sowing corn, if a crop of grain' is desired. 

 Three feet apart each way, giving thirty hills, gave better results 

 than anything nearer, and called for the best premiums this year, — 

 even twenty-five hills to the rod gave better results than thirty-six. 

 A piece of planted sweet corn seems to be an excellent crop for the 

 farmer to raise. It feeds both cows and hogs at the same time, and 

 not unfrequently are the family willing to have a share of it. 



Potatoes, we think, will average quite a good crop. Burbank 



