REPORT OF COMMITTEES, 



SUMMER CROPS. 



Entkies 198. Spring Wheat. 4 ; Winter Rye, five acres, 18, three acres, 22, 

 one acre, 28 ; Oats, five acres, 21, three acres, 28, one acre, 35 ; Barley, 5 ; 

 Sowed Corn 15 ; Grass, 2%. 



Best acre Spring- Wheat, Charles Spur, Sheffield, $7 



2d do., George H. Cobb, West Stockbridge, 6 



3d do., Fred A. Burghardt, Great Barrington, 5 



Best four acres Winter Wheat, William H. May, Egremont, 7 



Best five acres Winter Rye, O. W. Judd, Sheffield, 8 



2d do., George H. Bradford, Egremont, 7 



3d do., Michael Hayes, New Marlboro, 6 



4th do., James H. Rowley, Egremont, 5 



.5th do., D. C. Millard, Egremont, 4 



Best three acres Winter Rye, Horace Z. Cande, Sheffield, 8 



2d do., Oscar L. Mansir, Monterev, T 



3d do., George H. Spurr, Sheffield, 6 



4th do., E. D. Shears, Sheffield, 5 



5th do., Dennis Hayes, New Marlboro, 4 



Best one acre Winter Rye, Arthur M. Hewins, Sheffield, 7 



2d do., William H. Sheldon, New Marlboro, 6 



3d do., Dwight Boardman, Sheffield, 5 



4th do., James Bullard, Lee, 4 



5th do., M. S. Bidwell, Monterey, 3 



6th do., H. S. Chapin, Sheffield, 2 



Best live acres Oats, N. J. Smith, Stockbridge, 7 



2d do., Henry A. Tobey, Great Barrington, 6 



3d do., Joseph A. Kline, Egremont, 5 



4th do., Dennis Hayes, New Marlboro, 4 



5th do., Henry W. Sheldon, New Marlboro, 3 



6th do., F. F. Cooper, Sheffield, 2 



Best three acres Oats, Arthur B. Derrick, Egremont, 7 



3d do., J. N. Fargo, New Marlboro, 6 



3d do., J. N. Warner, Sheffield, 5 



4th do., F. K. Hinckley, Lee, 4 



5th do., George R. Curtis, Alford, 3 



6th do., D. C. Belden, Lenox, 3 



Best acre Oats, Orren Curtis, Sheffield, 6 



3d do., Dominick Garrihan, Ncav Marlboro, 5 



3d do., Henry R. Spurr, Sheffield, 4 



4th do., John B. Walker, New Marlboro, 3 



5th do., Andrew J. Buck, Lenox, 2 



6th do., Daniel Warner, Great Barrington, 1 



Best acre Barley, James Bullard, Lee, 5 



2d do., D. G. Roberts, Pittsfleld, 4 



To THE Committee on Summer Crops : Oentlemeii .—I herewith present the fol- 

 lowmg statement in regard to cultivation and yield of the plot of cultivated grass 



K resented for your inspection. Soil, black loam overlaying a very strong gravelly 

 ard pan. Previous to this cultivation the land had been in grass for years ; so long 

 that the oldest people in the vicinity know not when it was plowed. We broke the 

 land in the fall of 1874. Cross plowed in the spring of 1875, and grew corn and tin-nips. 

 The land was not highly manured in 1875, as the sod Avas v^ery tough and needed two 

 years cultivating to fine it. A very heavy coat of manure was spread on broadcast in 

 the spi-ing of 1876, the land was well worked, and roots were grown upon it. In the 

 spring of 1877 the land was thoroughly plowed and harrowed, and was sown with s})ring 

 wheat and barley, and seeded to grass with Timothy, Rhode Island Bent, and Large 

 Clover, using one-half bushel of Timothy, one-half bushel of Bent, and fifteen pounds 

 of Clover seed per acre. The wheat jaelded forty-four, and the barley forty-eight 

 bushels per acre. After tl^e grain crops were harvested, the grass made great growth. 



