REPORT OF COMMITTEES. 



SUMMER CROPS. 



In the performance of the duty assigned to your Committee, we report as 

 follows : 



Whole number of entries, 202. Oats, 89 : Rye, 52 ; Wheat, 7 ; Barley, 6 ; 

 Grass, 22; Vegetable Gardens, 16; Market Gardens, 2; Flower Gardens, 8. 



The rye crop was unusually good, the wheat and oats had already felt the 

 excessive drought of the summer. A few pieces of rye had been cut before 

 your committee could conveniently view them, which debarred them from com- 

 petition. One piece of twenty acres, belonging to D. C. Millard of Egremont, 

 deserves special mention. And now, omitting the long prosy report made up 

 of generalities and suggestions old and trite, and grateful to the Housatonic 

 Agricultural Society for the privilege of visiting the farms and homes of South- 

 ern Berksliire, and especially grateful for the generous hospitality extended to 

 us at these pleasant homes, we would recommend the following awards : 



Best acre Spring Wheat, Charles Spurr, Sheffield, $6 00 



2d do.. H. T. Cacde, Sheffield, S 00 



3d do., Wm. 0. Curtis, Lenox. 4 00 



Best four acres Winter Rye. T. S. Baldwin, Egremont, 8 00 



2d do., F. B. Wilcox, Sheffield, 7 00 



3d do., Frederick Abbey, Great Barrlngton, 6 00 



4th do., Alonzo Bradley, Lee. 5 00 



5th do., Mark Hollenbeck, Great Barrlngton, 4 00 



Best acre Winter Rye, .Tared Lewis. Great Barrlngton, 7 00 



2d do., Carlton Curtis, Siockbridge, 6 00 



3d do., W. H. Hubbard, Great Barrington, 5 00 



4th do., Rufus Parker, Jr., Lee, 4 00 



5th do., Daniel Fairchild, Stockbridge, 3 00 



6th do., L. Hess, Sheffield, 2 00 



Best four acres Oats, D. C. Millard, Egremont, 7 00 



2d do., Silas S. Dewey. Alford. 6 00 



3d do., D wight Eoardman, Sheffield, 5 00 



4th do., James H. Rowley, Egremont, 4 00 



5th do., Joseph A. Kline, Egremont, 3 00 



6th do., H. A. Tobey, Great Barrington, 2 00 



Best acre Oats, George Curtis. Alford, 7 00 



2d do., Richard Goodman. Lenox, 6 00 



3d do., Benjamin Wheeler, Jr., New Marlboro, 5 00 



4tb do., Norman J. Smith, Stockbridge, 4 00 



5th do., £. N. Hubbard. Great Barrington, 3 00 



6th do.. George Tinker. Grsat Birrington, 2 00 



Best acre Barley, James Bullard, Lee, 5 00 



2d do., J. H. Van Deusen, Great Barrington, . 4 00 



3d do., B. F. Loomis. Egremont, 2 00 



Best three acres Meadow Grass, Warren Crissey, Great Barrington, 5 00 



2d do., Orrin E. Clark, Sheffield, 4 00 



3d do., N. B. Turner, Great Barrington, 3 00 



Best tiiree acres Upland Grass Doraiuick Garrihau, New Marlboro, 7 00 



2d do., H. M. Baldwin, We.-,t Stockbridge. 6 00 



3d do., A. C. Butler, Lenox, 5 00 



4th do.. J. A. Kline, Egremont, 4 UO 



5r.h do., Dennis Hayes. New Marlboro, 3 00 



6th do., M. W. Butler, Lenox. 2 00 



Best Vegetable Garden. Dewitt C. Smith, Lee, 6 00 



2d do,, M. L. Whitloik, Great 15an-ington, 5 00 



3d do., Warren Walker, New Marlboro. 4 00 



4th do., L. G. Bobbins, Great Barrington, 3 00 



Best Vlarket Garden, Carl Beer, Great Barrington, 4 00 



Best Flower Garden, Mrs. Henry Leavitt, Great Barrington, 4 00 



2d do., Mrs. Mary E. Curtis, Stockbridge, 3 00 



3fl do., Mrs. Charles Spurr, Sheffield, 2 00 



4ttJ do., Mrs, E. C, Ticknor, Alford, 1 00 



H. M. Peieson, } Committee. 



S. H. BUSHNELL, ) 



