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HAMPSHIRE, FRANKLIN AND HAMPDEN 

 AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Farms. 



The committee on farms report, that the following persons 

 entered their farms for premium, viz.: Moses Stebbins, of 

 South Deerfield ; Josiah Allis, Jr., of Whately ; Linus Green, 

 T. P. Huntington, and William P. Dickinson, of Hadlcy ; and 

 that the committee proceeded to view the farms thus entered, 

 in the month of June, and also in the month of September 

 last, agreeably to the instructions of the executive committee. 



All of the above farms are located in the Connecticut Valley, 

 and four of them on or near its banks. The committee were 

 highly gratified with the general appearance of the farms, 

 modes of culture adopted, and methods of increasing the 

 quantity and quality of manures. All of them are so situated 

 as abundantly to compensate the eflbrts put forth for their im- 

 provement, and to become model farms. And here your com- 

 mittee beg leave to state their regret that no farms were 

 entered from the hill towns, on which valuable improvements 

 can be made, and have been made, which would favorably 

 compare with the more smooth and level lands of the valley. 



Your committee are satisfied that the two cardinal points 

 in farming, and so often insisted upon and recommended, 

 are yet too much neglected by the great mass of our farmers, 

 viz. : the reduction of the number of acres improved, and the ac- 

 cumulation of larger quantities of manure. We have evidence 

 of the value of these points in the success which has attended 

 the cultivation of the farms presented for premiums ; they are 

 comparatively small, yet the amount of their products is large, 

 as will be seen by their several statements. 



The farm of Mr. Linus Green is in very fine condition ; his 

 system of management is not often excelled. He understands 



