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The peas brought to the notice of your committee, were not 

 of such a character as in their opinion merit premium. 



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POTATOES. 



For the best acre of potatoes, Charles E. Hinckley, 



Lee, - - - - - - |5 00 



For the second best do., J. R. Lawton, Great Barrington, 4 00 

 For the third best do., Elias Wright, Monterey, - 3 00 



For the fourth best do., A. Shephardson, Lanesborough, 2 00 



CARROTS. 



For the best ^ acre of carrots, Elijah N. Hubbard, Great 



Barrington, - - - - - -3 00 



For the second best do., Benjamin Hull, Stockbridge, - 2 00 



GRAFTED APPLE ORCHARD. 



For the best grafted apple orchard, Asahel Foot, Wil- 



liamstown, - - - - - - 12 00 



For the second best do., George S. Willis, Pittsfield, - 10 00 



For the third best do., Edson Sexton, Stockbridge, - 8 00 



M. SEARS, Chairman. 



Reed Mills^ Statement. 

 I hereby transmit to you the process of cultivation and 

 fertilizers used the present and last year on a field of spring 

 wheat, which obtained the first premium at the late fair in 

 Pittsfield, not, however, with the idea that this is the best 

 mode, but rather with the view that we may hear from other 

 wheat growers in Berkshire, who have had more experience, 

 and whose products have been not only twenty-eight and 

 three-fourths bushels per acre, the quantity we had, but thirty- 

 eight or forty bushels per acre, which, I believe, can be raised- 

 Yes, there are many hundred acres of land in old Berkshire 

 capable of producing, with the right cultivation and fertilizers 

 adapted to its growth, forty bushels to the acre ; if so, why 

 may not every farmer in Berkshire, be his farm ever so small, 

 if it contains one acre, raise his own bread stuff's ? How many 



