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 REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 



$1. 



Coal Wagon— C. E. Merrill, Pittsfield, $3. 

 Steel binder— Thomas Barber, Pittsfield, %%. 

 Light Reaper— Thomas Barber, Pittsfield, $1. 



Sixteen-foot Mowing Machine — Thomas Barber, 



Steam Heating Boiler— A. P. Smith, Lee, $2.50. 



Adriance Reaper— T. E. Hall & Co., Pittsfield, $1. 



Adriance Mower— T. E. Hall & Co., Pittsfield, $1. 



Baldwin Ensilage Cutter— T. E. Hall & Co . Pittsfield, $2. 



Exhibition Agricultural Implements— T. E. Hall & Co., $2. 



Dish Drainer — J. A. Royce, Lanesboro, 50 cents. 



Exhibition Agricultural Implements — H.'P. Lucas, Pittsfield, $5. 



Eclipse Corn Planter— H. P. Lucas, Pittsfield, $1. 



Manure Spreader— H. P. Lucas, Pittsfield, $1. 



National Sulky Plow— H. P. Lucas, Pittsfield, $2. 



National Rake— H. P. Lucas, Pittsfield, $1. 



Horse Cart— H. P. Lucas, Pittsfield. $1. 



Field Roller— H. P. Lucas, Pittsfield, $1. 



Climax Harrow— H. P. Lucas, Pittsfield, $1. 



Wood Mowers— A. M. Benedict, Pittsfield, $1. 



Reaper— A. M. Benedict, Pittsfield, $1. 



Eureka Mower— A. M. Benedict, Pittsfield, $1. 



Exhibition Pianos— Wood Bros., Pittsfield, $3. 



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Committee — H. C. Wells, J W. Clakk. 



BEST REPORTS. 



To the Secretary of the Berkshire Agricultural Society : 



Your committee on " Best Reports," having attended to the duty assigned 

 them, respectfully submit the following : 



While the report of the committee on Paintings and Works of Art is 

 justly appreciative, and commendatory of the great importance of that de- 

 partment of your annual exhibition— and we believe it cannot be too highly 

 estimated — it yet offers one suggestion in which we cannot concur, viz : "If 

 all spectators could be excluded from the hall preceding the work of the 

 several committees, * * * it would be another step towards entire jus- 

 tice to all concerned." In most cases the services of the committee must be 

 performed during the best hour of the day for visitors, and to exclude them 

 from the hall would inflict a greater injustice than the one proposed to be 

 corrected. 



We also fully believe that the invocation with which your committee on 

 "Working Oxen" close their report, is destined to remain unrealized. 

 Truly, " The world moves." 



The modern methods and appliances for carrying on every branch of Ag- 

 riculture, have created the necessity for leaving the '-mild and patient ox" 

 far behind in the race for profit and competence. The " noble, willing 

 horse" is a necessity on the farm, and doubtless has come to stay, until he 

 shall be displaced by same power still better adapted to keep pace with the 

 increasing necessity for dispatch. The farm methods of a half century in 

 the future will doubtless be as far in advance of what they are to-day, as 

 ours are of what they were fifty years ago. " The world moves," and more 

 and more ; " time is money" to the farmer as it is in every other department 

 of human enterprise. 



