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For the best one-acre pieces we gave Rev. J. V. Ambler, of 

 Lanesboro', the first premium ; Henry Smith, of Lee, the second; 

 0. J. Farnum, of Lanesboro', the third ; Edmund Joyncr, of 

 Egremont, the fourth; Cyrus Crosby, of Stockbridge, the fifth. 



Mr. Ambler's ground waa meadow, one-half of which was 

 ploughed last fall and again this spring; the other half was 

 ploughed this spring ; all eight inches. We could discover that 

 nothing was gained by ploughing last fall. Twenty-five loads of 

 long manure were harrowed in. I planted 27th of May ; leached 

 ashes, twelve bushels per acre, were used on the hill before 

 hoeing ; the cultivator used first, and the plough at the last, hoe- 

 ing ; it produced sixty-one and one-fourth pounds. This field 

 was tended almost wholly by a man above eighty years of age, 

 who showed that, in his second boyhood, he had not forgot- 

 ten what he had learned in his manhood. Mr. Smith's corn was 

 on meadow ground. Thirty-five loads of long manure were 

 ploughed under eight inches, ashes and plaster used in the hill, 

 and plaster after hoeing the first time. Planted, 25th of May, 

 with twelve-rowed Dutton corn, thirty-six hills on a rod, and 

 produced fifty-eight and three-fourth pounds. Mr. Farnum's 

 ground was in corn last year. This year ten loads of compost 

 and seventy-five pounds of plaster were used. Planted, 25th 

 of May, with twelve-rowed corn ; hills three feet by two and 

 one-half; cultivated and hoed twice ; hills raised, thirty-two 

 and one-half on a rod, and produce fifty-two and three-fourths 

 pounds. Mr. Joyner's corn was on greensward. Ploughed 

 ten inches; a few loads of hog manure harrowed in; one and 

 one-half bushels of plaster and ashes were used in the hill. 

 Planted, 26th and 27th of May, with twelve-rowed corn, 

 twenty-seven hills on a rod, and produced forty-seven pounds. 



NORFOLK. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



The committee on grain crops report only five entries of 

 Indian corn. Many excellent fields of this staple production 

 have been grown in various parts of the county ; but the severe 

 drought so discouraged the farmers as to deter them from 



