BERKSHIRE SOCIETY. 



BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



This Society held its thirty-fifth anniversary on the 1st and 

 2d days of October, 1845. 



The first day of the Fair was devoted to the exhibition of 

 animals, domestic manufactures, and agricultural implements. 

 The ploughing match, on the morning of the second day, ex- 

 cited great interest. At eleven o'clock, the Society moved in 

 procession to the Congregational Church, where the annual ad- 

 dress was delivered by the President of the Society, Hon. Asa- 

 hel Foote, of Williamstown. The reading of the reports of 

 the various committees then followed, and the premiums of the 

 Society were distributed by the treasurer, assisted by the mar- 

 shals, to the successful competitors. 



The following selections are made from the reports. 



Agricultural Products. 



It gave the committee great pleasure to notice the spirit 

 among many of the farmers, to reclaim and improve their lands, 

 their fences and their barns, and make comfortable their tene- 

 ments, displaying neatness and taste in the arrangement about 

 their houses and yards, with good front fences, with fruit trees 

 and vines, and shade trees, good kitchen gardens and flower 

 plats, emblems of neatness and taste, aud a sure indication of 

 well arranged apartments within. 



The committee were highly gratified in discovering an inter- 

 est among many of the farmers to cultivate the wheat crop. 

 Almost every farmer has some land well adapted, with proper 

 culture, to the raising of this important crop. When we con- 

 sider the large amount of wheat imported into this county from 

 the west, and the great draft that is thus made upon the means 

 of the farmer, while the products of our own land are so de- 

 pressed, is it not time to awake to the subject of wheat grow- 

 ing'? Your committee are of opinion that it can be cultivated 

 with success, from what they have been able to discover in their 



