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REPORTS. 



SUMMER CROPS. 



Pitt 8 field is understood where the town is not mentioned.) 



Spring wheat — Horace Z. Candee, Sheffield, $5; Alex Shand, Williamstown, 4; 

 E. P. Tanner, Lee, 3. 



Rye, one acre— Frank A. Palmer, Stockbridge, $6; Frank Nourse, Lanesboro, 

 5; Mrs. Orrin Clark, Sheffield, 4; Wm. C. French, West Stockbridge, 3; Ed- 

 mund Spencer, 2; P. M. Shaylor, Lee, 1. 



Rye, four acres — L. S. Butler, Lenox, $5; Zenas, Crane, Jr., 4; H. L. Rowe, 

 Egremont, 3; Hascal Lodge, 2; F. C. Peck, 1. 



Oats, one acre — O. T. Benedict, $6; O. F. Farnam, Lanesboro, 5; Geo. Kel- 

 logg, Sheffield, 4; John B. Hull, Stockbridge, 3; John Dudley, Adams, 2; S. W. 

 Dow, Lanesboro, 1. 



Oats, four acres — Oren Benedict, $5: L. S. Butler, Lenox, 4; J. M. Foote, 3; 

 T. S. Baldwin. Egremont, 2; Andrew ]. Buck, Stockbridge, 1. 



Barley— H. F. Wood, Cheshire, $5; C. A. Mills, Williamstown, 4; N. B. Cur- 

 tis, Stockbridge, 3; H. A. Barton, Dalton, 2. 



Meslins— C. A Mills, Williamstown, $4; C. H. Dorr, Richmond, 3; M. W. 

 Coleman, Richmond, 2. 



Millet— Wm. F. Milton, $3; Wm. C. French, West Stockbridge, 2. 



Committee — George R. Barber, Dwight Andrews. 



FALL CROPS. 



Your committe on fall crops commenced their duties Sept. 7, 1885; we had on 

 our list 50 entries of corn, 16 of Buckwheat, 9 of beans, 34 of potatoes, 9 of sweet 

 corn, 33 of sowed corn, 5 of sugar beets, 12 of all other beets, 6 of English tur- 

 nips, 12 of cabbage, 3 of onions, 8 of carrots, 8 of Swedish turnips, 7 of apple 

 orchards, 4 of pear orchards, 5 collection of fruit trees, 19 large farms, 13 

 small farms and 12 of reclaimed lands, making 265 entries 



We found the corn crop late and very much of it green, generally it was of very 

 good growth and some pieces that stood nearly perfect, while some pieces had many 

 missing hills scattered over the piece; the cause for that was poor seed, pulled by the 

 birds and destroyed by the worms; the corn although late will about average with 

 former years. Buckwheat is looking well this year but it is not quite as well filled 

 as it is some years. Beans with the exception of three or lour pieces were poorly 

 cared for. We found the potatoe crop very much injured with the rot, some 

 pieces nearly destroyed with the rot, some pieces were about half rotten, while 

 other pieces seemed to be nearly free from disease. We found the best potatoes 

 on dry land where phosphate was used more and manure was used less; the pota- 

 toes that were planted in rows marked one way two feet nine inches apart so as to 

 include six rows within one rod and putting one quarter of a potato in a hill and 

 making the hills one foot apart on the row, which would give about one hundred 

 hills on the rod square, produced the most pounds to the rod and generally there 

 were less small potatoes. 



