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nearly all parts of the county, the question often arises why so many 

 vacated farms in the eastern towns, where, as we are informed, farms 

 with comfortable buildings can be purchased for less money than 

 what the buildings would cost new. Surely our young men cannot 

 build themselves worthier, happier, or more useful lives and homes 

 than by pursuing here a system of improved agriculture. In the in- 

 stance of one improved farm of more than one hundi^ed acres, brought 

 to our notice, located in New Marlborough, shows what a condition 

 of fertility good farming will bring, even in these old hill towns. 



Whole number of entries, 219. Classed as follows : Corn, five 

 acres, 24 : Corn, three acres, 23 ; Com one acre, 43 ; Sowed Corn, 

 12 ; Planted Sweet Corn, 7 ; Buckwheat, 25 ; Potatoes, 19 : White 

 Beans, 6, Sugar Beets, 8 ; Onions, 6; Mangel Wurtzels, 11 ; Carrots, 

 5 ; Sweedish, Kussian and French Tui'nips, 8 ; Cabbage 9 ; Farms of 

 forty acres, 4 ; Farms of one hundred acres, 9. 



After a careful exammation of the two hundi'ed and nineteen 

 crops entered for premiums we award as follows : 



Best five acres Corn, P. M. Shaylor. Lee, $8 



2d do., Kobert L. Taft, Sheffield, 7 



3d do., J. H. Van Deusen, Great Barrington, 6 



4tli do., T. S. Baldwin, Egremout, 5 



5th do. , Warren Crissey, Great Barrington, 4 



6th do., David Haley, Great Barrington, 3 



7th do. . George S. Day, Great Barrington, 2 



Best three acres Corn, Horace Z. Candee, Sheffield, " 8 



2d do., Kalph Turner, Great Barrington, 7 



3d do., Jared Lewis, Great Barrington, <> 



4th do., John B. Chadwick, Great Barrington, o 



5tb do. , Frederick Abbey, Great Barrington, 4 



6th do., John D. Noxon, Great Barrington, 3 



7th do., Frank C. Holleubeck, Great Barrington, 2 



Best one acre Corn, Horace Z. Candee, Sheffield, 7 



2d do., William 0. Curtiss, Lenox, 6 



3d do., F. K. Hinckley, Lee, 5 



4th do., E. P. Tanner, Lee, 4 



5th do. , Hamson Garfield, Lee, 3 



6th do., James Bullard, Lee, 2 



7th do., C. C. French, West Stockbridge, 1 



Best one -half acre Planted Sweet Corn, P. M. Shaylor, Lee. 4 



2d do., EHhu Church, Alford, 3 



3d do., William D. Curtis, Lenox, 2 



Best one-half acre Sowed Corn, H. Pendleton, Lee, 5 



2d do. , Warren Crissev, Great Barrington, , 4 



3d do., WiUiam W. Chapin, Sheffield, 3 



4th do. , Joseph A. KHne, Egremont, 3 



5th do. , Merrit I. Wheeler, Great Barrington, 2 



Best one acre Buckwheat, Jared Lewis, Great Barrington, 5 



2d do., OiTin Benedict, Pittsfield, 4 



3d do.. Ralph Turner, Great Barrington, 3 



4th do.. James Van Deusen, Great Barrington, 2 



5th do. , Lester Busby, Great Barrington, 1 



Best one acre Potatoes Henry Goodale, Mt. Washington, 7 



2d do., Elizur Smith, Lee, 6 



3d do., William O. Curtis, Lenox, 5 



-l-th do. , Russell Prindle Alford. 4 



5th do. , Seth Lee, Sheffield, 3 



6th do., E. H. Huested, Egremont, .2 



