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"We will also say to the committee, that there is on the ground 

 on which this wheat was raised an orchard of apple trees of 

 nine years' growth. 



BERKSHIRE. 



F?'o?n the Report of the Committee. 



But one crop of winter wheat was entered, and that hardly 

 worth a premium. The wheat was sown, after corn, the last of 

 September; two and one-fourth bushels of blue stem were 

 sown to the acre, and one bushel of plaster sown with the 

 seed; it was ploughed six inches deep and harrowed three 

 times. This field was highly manured last year, and produced 

 about eighty bushels of corn to the acre. Mr. Curtis informed 

 the committee that it produced about fifteen bushels of wheat 

 to the acre. A part of the field was badly winter-killed, and 

 that saved it from the ravages of the insect, the part that did 

 not winter-kill being nearly destroyed by its ravages. As this 

 is so uncertain a crop, and is raised in so small a section of 

 the county, and by so few persons, your committee doubt the 

 propriety of the society's encouraging its cultivation. 



There were fifteen entries of spring wheat, and decidedly the 

 best was that of Mr. Jason Clapp, of Pittsfield, which would have 

 taken the first premium if it had been entered in accordance 

 with the regulations of the society. 



Mr. Coman's wheat, for which the first premium is awarded, 

 was on ground that received about twenty-five loads of compost 

 from the hog yard last year, and produced seventy-five bushels 

 of corn to the acre. For the present crop no manure was 

 used. It was ploughed seven inches deep, harrowed, and the 

 seed ploughed in. Two and one-fourth bushels of Mediterra- 

 nean wheat were soaked in brine over night and rolled in 

 lime and then sown. 



Mr. Hinckley's wheat, for which the second premium was 

 awarded, was on ground that received twenty loads of long 

 manure ploughed in, and ten loads of compost spread on and 

 harrowed in last year, and produced one hundred bushels of 

 corn to the acre. This year it was ploughed once six inches 



