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They award : 



For the best acre of spring wheat, a new variety here called 



Himmelah wheat, to Joshua Tillotson, of Lanesboro', $6 00 



2d best to Edmund S. Callendar, of Sheffield, - 5 00 



3d do. to Charles Hinckley, of Lee, - 4 00 



4th do. to Marshall Sears, of Lenox, - 3 00 



For the best acre of winter rye, to Robert B. Brown, of 



Egremont, - - - - - 5 00 



2d do. to Asahel Sherman, of Lanesborough, - 4 00 



3d do. to R. H. Wells, of Adams, - - - 3 00 



Thirty-eight pieces of Indian corn were entered, fifteen of 

 which yielded from 200 to 240 bushels of ears per acre, well 

 packed, level or stricken measure. The committee would pay 

 William W. Ward, of Pittsfield, the compliment of having the 

 neatest and best cultivated crop, that fell under their inspection. 



For the best acre of corn, in a piece of 10 acres, 12-rowed, giv- 

 ing 240 bushels of ears, to Clement Harrison, of 

 Adams, - - - - - $6 00 



2d do. a piece of 14 acres, 8-rowed, giving 240 bush- 

 els of ears, to Nelson Joiner, of Egremont, - 5 00 



3d do. a piece of 5 acres, 12-rowed, giving 226 bush- 

 els of ears, to Ralph Little, of Sheffield, - 4 00 



4th do. a piece of 5 acres, 8-rowed, giving 200 bush- 

 els of ears, all sound, to Wm. W. Ward, of Pitts- 

 field, - 3 00 



5th do. an extra premium, a piece of 3 acres. 12-rowed ; 

 giving 220 bushels of ears, to Reed Mills, of Wil- 

 liamstown, - - - - 3 00 



6th do. an extra premium, a piece of 2 acres, 8-rowed, 

 giving 232 bushels of ears, not all sound, to Avery 

 Williams, of Stockbridge, - - - 2 00 



Frederick W. Jones, of Stockbridge, offered an extra good 

 piece of corn, but had cut up a great part of it before examina- 

 tion. The committee think he would have been entitled to a 

 premium, had his corn remained on the hill, but, as they exam- 

 ined all crops with the utmost care, they can only recommend 

 him to another trial, and to keep his crops, until harvested, from 



