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My field corn having top dressed freely, I use fertilizer in hill ; sweet corn 

 the same, of which, as I stated above, I have seven acres, mostly early Con- 

 cord, which was well eared, and I consider this as good a crop as I have 

 raised the past season, having enough to carry my milch cows until the last 

 or middle of December. I consider it a very enjoyable feed for the cow, 

 and one that produces rich milk and requires but little, if any, additional 

 grain. 



I sow oats after corn, and always seed with the same, sowing three peeks 

 or more of mixed grasses to the acre. Sow rye for convenience for the use 

 of straw, and to re-seed an occasional piece of land. 



I set an apple orchard of eighty trees thirty-eight' feet apart, after which 

 I set a pear orchard by setting in the center of the square of the apple trees, 

 thus bringing trees as I think about the right distance apart, giving us plenty 

 and a large variety of apples and pears. 



I shall feed the present year more grain than I raise, but hope to have hay 

 to sell, yet I wish to winter all the stock I can house. 



As a fertilizer, I have used wood ashes with good success. I also use 

 quite an amount of phosphate, always harrowing it in, and with all grain 

 crops well pulverizing is the rule. 



Dairying is the final result of all. We send our milk to the New York 

 market, and it has averaged for the year one hundred and fifty dollars per 

 month. 



We have also pigs and pork, but more beef to dispose of in the spring 

 time, when it brings the best price. 



I would say at the time I bought the place we had about twenty head of 

 stock in all, raising more grain instead of the present hay crop. 



Respectfully yours, T. S. Baldwin. 



Lee, November 23, 1887. 

 To the Secretary of the Berkshire Agricultural Socu ty, 



Dear Sir: Having been awarded first premium on my farm of ninety- 

 six acres, I am expected to give a short report of my way of managing it. 

 When I bought it, twenty-six years ago, it contained sixty acres. I have 

 added, until, as I said, it now has ninety-six acres, divided into tillage, pas- 

 ture and wood land. For twenty years I followed mixed farming, raising 

 cattle, sheep, colts and pigs, and did well at it, but later there has been less 

 profit on these things, and for the last six years have kept more cows, and 

 send all my cream to the Lee creamery, feeding the skimmed milk to calves 

 and pigs. Am breeding some short-horn cattle, and have done very well 

 willi I hem. I feed all the hay I cut and all the grain I raise, and buy some. 

 I do not buy much commercial fertilizer. To my mind it, is too expensive 

 for the return, but make all I can on the farm. 



Yours respectfully, F. K. Hinckley. 



GARDENS. 



Mrs. S. L. Pollock, 



Vegetable gardens by professional gardener — 1st. 

 Pittsfield, |6; 2d, Mrs. E. II. Kellogg, Pittsfield, 4. 



Vegetable gardens by non professional gardener — 1st, George Kellogg, 

 Sheffield, $5; 2d, Mrs. .lames [>. Colt. Pittsfield, 4; 3d, W. G. Karner, Pitts- 

 field, :'.; 1th, Anson Buck, Stockbridge, 2. 



