290 BERKSHIRE SOCIETY. 



We award on winter apples, 

 The first premium, to Edward C. Carter, Stockbridge, 

 Second " Joseph Stevens, Sheffield, 



Third •' Luther S, Butler, Lenox, 



On fall apples. 

 First premium, to David F. Goodrich, Stockbridge, 

 Second " Luther Sears, Jr.. Lenox, 



And recommend a reserved premium of one dollar, to Na- 

 thaniel Cook, of Richmond, for a choice lot of winter apples. 



Six seedling varieties of apples, many of ihem from trees 

 supposed to have been planted by the Indians, were presented 

 by Samuel Goodrich, of Stockbridge. If the taste of these 

 apples is to be relied upon as evidence of their excellence, they 

 are well worthy of cultivation, as they are certainly adapted to 

 the soil and climate of Berkshire. Also, beautiful seedling 

 plums, by W. Curtis, of Lenox. 



Twenty-five or thirty varieties of winter apples were pre- 

 sented for exhibition, by Benjamin V. French, of Braintree, 

 and fifty-two varieties of the pear, by M. P. Wilder, of Dor- 

 chester. 



WILLIAM BACON, Chairman. 



Household Manufactures. 



A premium of two dollars was awarded to Mrs. John Os- 

 born, of Pittsfield, for some beautiful linen thread, spun in her 

 84th year. The committee (J. C. Hoadley, chairman.) say, 

 there is about a pound of this thread, and every skein of it 

 should be kept as a precious heirloom in the family of the ven- 

 erable lady who spun it. The " little wheel," as the machine 

 for spinning flax was called, which used to blend its tiny mur- 

 mur with the loud hum of the " great wheel," on which hand- 

 carded rolls were spun into woollen yarn, has shared the fate 

 of its more pretending sister, — the merry music of both is 

 drowned in the din of the factory. This little linen thread 

 runs back into the time, when our grandmothers sat, with foot 



