Craiisactious. 



Eaklt in April, the Executive Committee convened at the office 

 of the Secretary and prepared a list of premiums, which was posted 

 in more than two hundred public places, within the limits of the 

 Society, and was published in the Amherst Express. One of the 

 Show-bills was sent, for the purpose of exchange, to the Secretary of 

 every known Agricultural Society, in Massachusetts. The number 

 and amount of the premiums, as well as the objects for which they 

 were offered, will appear in the following pages. The duty of award- 

 ing premiums was assigned to thirty-four committees, composed of 

 one hundred and sixty-six ladies and gentlemen. 



EXAMINING COMMITTEES. 



On Essays. President Hitchcock, Chairman. Professor W. 

 C. Fowler, Alfred Baker. 



On Fine Arts. Professor Haven, Chairman. Mrs. Edward 

 Hitchcock, Mrs. Edward Dickinson, Mrs. James AV. Boyden, Mrs. 

 C. D. Eaton, Pelham ; Mrs. David Rice, Leverett ; Mrs. George E. 

 Fisher, Mrs. James L. Merrick, Mrs. J. R. Trumbull, Northampton; 

 Mrs. G. Morgan Smith, South Hadley. 



On Manufactures. Professor Snell, Chairman. Mrs. Thomas 

 Jones, Mrs. Aaron Warner, Mrs, A. M. Colton, Easthampton ; Mrs. 

 Porter Cowles, Hadley ; Mrs. Harriet Kellogg, Mrs. William S. Ty- 

 ler, Mrs. R. B. Hubbard, Sunderland ; Alden C. Field, Leverett ; 

 Hon. J. B. Woods, Enfield ; G. H. Gilbert, Ware. 



On Farms. Moses B. Green, Chairman. Linus Green, Had- 

 ley ; Horace Lyman, Sunderland. 



On Crops. Simeon Clark, Chairman, Charles H. Field, Lev- 

 erett; Cyrus Stebbins, Granby. 



On Fruit. P. Smith Williams, Hadley, Chairman. Mrs. 

 Simeon Clark, Mrs. Horace Henderson, Sunderland; Mrs. Linus 

 Green, Hadley; Mrs. Coleman Hobart, Leverett; Mrs. Joseph G. 



