EEPOHTS OF COMMITTEES. 



SUMMER CROPS. 



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Your committee on summer crops having attended to the duties assigned 

 them, submit the following report: — - 



The whole number of entries, one hundred and twenty-three, classed as 

 follows: Winter wheat 7; spring* wheat 15; rye 39; oats 36; barley 11; 

 gardens 1; grass 4; meslings 2; peas 1; farm 1. The last four crops 

 were viewed but no premiums were offered. 



The crops examined, with few exceptions, we found to be remarkable 

 good. The rich rewards which our farmers have received for their la- 

 bors the past season, we hope will stimulate them to make greater efforts 

 in the future. 



WINTER WHEAT. 



Your committee regret in not finding more of the article sown, for we 

 believe that good wheat can be grown in Southern Berkshire. We hope 

 in the future that more of this grain will be sown, and that this society 

 will ever encourage the growing of this crop. We award: 

 For the best acre winter wheat, Ralph Little of Sheffield, $f> 00 



2d do., Theodore I. Williams of Stockbridge, 4 00 



SPRING WHEAT. 



Of this crop your committee examined fifteen fields, all of which were 

 very good. We also saw many others that were not entered for premium. 

 Your committee were highly pleased to find the farmers in Sonthern and 

 Central Berkshire, paying so much attention to the raising of this crop, 

 which is one of the staple crops of the country. 

 For the best acre of spring wheat, A. G. Freeman of Monterey, 



2d do., Seneca T. Race of Egremont, 



3d do., II. D. Palmer of Stockbridge, 



4th do., Walter Richards of Lenox, 



5th do., George C. Peck of Lenox, 



