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feet suceess in the art of tilling the soil ; still, agricnlture will 

 never be able to achieve its highest triumphs, until the inven- 

 tive genius of our countrymen shall seek an appropriate field 

 for the display of its powers in further improvements upon the 

 construction of those weapons of peace which are to be wield- 

 ed by our hardy yeomanry, in subduing the soil, and reaping 

 the rewards of their labor. Plough-shares and pruning-hooks 

 have a grand destiny assigned them from of old, arid in no surer 

 way can we hurry on " the good time coming," than in per- 

 fecting ourselves in this department of effort. 



The committee believe that the ingenuity of Berkshire is ca- 

 pable of making a still better display of implements than have 

 this day been exhibited. A better opportunity than that offered 

 by our agricultural fairs, could not be presented to convey in- 

 formation in regard to recently improved models, to the mutual 

 benefit of both farmer and manufacturer. 



The committee would call particular attention to the efforts 

 of Dr. Reed, the proprietor of the agricultural warehouse in 

 Pittsfield, for introducing to the notice of our farmers so many 

 improvements in agricultural implements. His tastefully ar- 

 ranged pyramid, embracing all varieties of implements of hus- 

 bandry, elicited universal admiration. The committee have 

 adjudged to him for this collection a premium of $4. 



For the Committee, 



LEVI BRADFORD. 



Dairy. 



Nature has furnished to no place facilities for producing but- 

 ter and cheese, in their most delicious flavor, superior to those 

 in our own Berkshire. No sweeter feed exists than that which 

 covers her hills and lines her valleys, and no purer springs than 

 those that gush from her rocks. The skill and intelligence of 

 the daughters of Berkshire in turning these advantages to ac- 

 count, are inferior to those of none in the world. And so we 

 hope it ever may be. We are as much the friends of education in 

 its true sense, as any, but not of that education which raises 



