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grafted about twenty apple trees. The water for the barn and 

 soft water for the house are brought in lead pipes from a well 

 in the orchard twelve feet deep, which usually failed in a dry 

 time, but has been made to supply us well by digging trenches 

 from the bottom of the well, five rods long, into the hill, and 

 fifteen feet deep at the upper end, stoning up a small channel, 

 "and then filling with small stones, and completing by filling 

 with the earth dug from it. I usually pasture from six to eight 

 cows and one horse. My oxen and other stock are kept on 

 hire. This year I milk six cows, one of them three years old, 

 and am raising three calves. The season has been unfavorable 

 for hay and grain, the ground being so wet in the spring it 

 could not be ploughed in good season. One lot was sown to- 

 wards the last of May, the other about the 10th of June. My 

 corn was planted the 1st and 2d of June, and the wire worms 

 destroyed about fifty rods before it came up, which were planted 

 afterwards with potatoes. Later in the season the hay and 

 grain were injured by dry weather. 



Baree, October 31, 18p4. 



HAMPSHIRE. 

 Report of the Committee. 



The committee report that entries for premiums have been 

 made by Austin Smith & Sons, of Sunderland, and by The- 

 ophilus P. Huntington, "William P. Dickinson, and Royal W. 

 Smith, of Hadley. 



The committee visited the farms of these gentlemen as di- 

 rected by the rules of the society ; and we take pleasure in 

 saying here, that the hospitality with which we have been re- 

 ceived lias been such as to induce the hearty wish that we 

 had as many premiums to award as there have been entries 

 made, so that none of our friends need go unrewarded. 



Wo find, however, that there arc but two premiums — one of 

 twenty, and the other of ten, dollars. The first of these we 

 have awarded to Austin Smith & Sons, of Sunderland, and 

 we are confident that a discerning public will find reasons for 

 our so doing in the accompanying statement of these gentlemen. 



