REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 



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Sugar Beets, one-quarter acre— 1st, Alonzo Bradley, Lee, $4; 2d, A. M. 

 Stevens. Williamstown, 3; 3d, F. K. Hinckley, Lee, 2. 



Beets other than Sugar Beets— 1st, Win. F. Milton, Pittsfield, $4; 2d, W. 

 G. Carner, Pittsfield, 3; 3d, George Kellogg, Sheffield, 2. 



English Turnips, one-quarter acre — 1st, DeWitt C. Munson, New Marl- 

 boro, $3; 2d, Alexander Shand, Williamstown, 2. 



Cabbage, one-quarter acre— 1st, Andrews Hall, Adams, $4; 2d, Thomas 

 Renfrew, Jr., Pittsfield, 3; 3d, A. Raymond, Pittsfield, 2. 



Onions, one-quarter acre — 1st, Alexander Shand, Williamstown, $3; 2d, 

 W. C. French, West Stockbridge, 2; 3d, Andrews Hall. Adams, 1. 



Carrots, one-quarter acre — 1st, Wm, F. Milton, Pittsfield, $3; 2d, W. G. 

 Karner, Pittsfield, 2; 3d, Andrews Hall, Adams, 1. 



Sweedish and French Turnips — 1st, John Dudley, Adams, $4; 2d, Wm. 

 O. Curtis, Lenox, 3; 3d, J. F. Coleman, Richmond, 2. 



Reclaimed Land, one acre or more — 1st, Thomas Renfrew, Jr., Pittsfield, 

 $6; 2d, John S. Barton, Dalton, 5; 3d, Mrs. C. E. Dewey. Lenox, 4. 



Pear Orchard — Garrett Sayles. Stockbridge, $5. 



Only two entries of Collection of Fruit Trees; your committee did not 

 consider that they come within the regulations of the Society. 



Best managed farm, 100 acres or more — 1st. T. S. Baldwin, Egremont, 

 $20; 2d, H. F. Wood, Cheshire, 15; 3d, S. A. Hickox, Williamstown, 12; 

 4th, P. M. Shaylor, Lee, 8; 5th, W. C. French, West Stockbridge, 5. 



Best farms of 40 to 100 acres— 1st, F. K. Hinckley, Lee, $15; 2d, Ralph 

 Little. Sheffield, 12; 3d, William I. Walker, Gt. Barrington, 10; 4th, John 

 Dudley, Adams, 8; 5th, C. L. Stewart, Richmond. 5. 



Committee — Wm. E. Johnson, Roswell Hollis. 



Baldwin Hill, | 

 Egremont, Mass. , November 25, 1887. ) 

 Wm. H. Murray, Secretary of Berkshire Agricultural Society, 



Dear Sir : In accordance with the regulations of the Berkshire Agri- 

 cultural Society, I will make the following statement of my farm, as nearly 

 correct as I can, being the recipient of the first premium on large farms for 

 1887. 



My farm consists of one hundred and forty acres, all tillable land, used in 

 the following manner the past season: of mowing, fifty-nine acres; pas- 

 ture, forty-rive acres ; field corn, eight acres ; sweet corn, seven acres ; po- 

 tatoes, one acre ; rye, eight acres ; orchard, three acres. I also have, in 

 connection with my farm, a small place which I rent, and use mostly as 

 pasture. I have raised for the past two or three years six or eight calves 

 each year, having at present about twenty five head of high grade Holstein 

 heifers, which I am well pleased with, as those which are giving milk well. 

 I purchased the farm, which was the old homestead, twenty years ago, with 

 all old buildings. There has been nothing unusual in my mode of farming. 

 except I did feel from the first, after my possession of it, that it was my 

 bank. 



I have now all new buildings, and my farm is well cleared of stone. I 

 have at present fifty head of cattle and seven horses and colts, making all 

 the fertilizer I can, and keeping it under cover until used. Mixing the 

 dropping from cows with the horse manure, having hogs to stir it, and 

 drawing out in winter once in two weeks and spreading upon the land (when 

 level) for corn ; or in autumn upon rye or grass. I never keep my cows in 

 the stable in summer, thinking I cannot afford to, neither for the pay in pail 

 nor the good of my farm. 





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