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Hops were very good and though heavier than last year, were not as 

 good as some former years. 



Tobacco was a heavy crop, and paid the competitors well for their labor. 

 Sowed Corn was a very good crop, and a very desirable one for a farm- 

 er to raise. 



A few suggestions in regard to matters about home. A person passing 

 from town to town, as your committee had occasion to, could not but no- 

 tice the great difference between the well arranged buildings, fences, and 

 the well kept yards and roadsides, and a general neatness displayed, when 

 compared with other places, with their fences propped up, yards and road- 

 sides grown to weeds and filled with rubbish, showing a lack of energy and 

 taste. 



Xow we would recommend to those who have not already taken steps 

 in that direction, that they build a neat road fence and be sure to have it 

 on the line, instead of slicing off from five feet to a rod from the highway, 

 which they have no more right to do that to take it from a neighbor's field 

 adjoining. Also, to clear the street and yard of stones, rubbish, and the 

 like, which have been deposited there for convenience, and after mowing 

 the street twice a year for two or three years, will have a beautiful lawn 

 instead of the former ugly and untidy appearance. Another suggestion we 

 would make; that the $150 offered for trotting horses outside the county 

 be used for other purposes and we propose that a portion of it be offered 

 for the best managed farms. Your committee express their thanks for the 

 kindness and hospitality received. 



There were 196 entries for examination. Four acres corn, 2G entries; 

 one acre 49 entries; buckwheat 26 entries; potatoes 30 entries; beans 20 

 entries; beets 6 entries; carrots 10 entries; turnips 7 entries; cabbages 

 4 entries; cranberries 1. 



For the best four acres corn, Jared Lewis of Great Barrington, $10 00 

 2d do., Jonathan P. Tobey of Great Barrington, 8 00 



3d do., Guy Day of Great Barrington, 7 00 



4th do., T. S. Baldwin of Egremont, 6 00 



5th do., Orren Curtiss of Sheffield, 5 00 



6th do., James W. Parks of Sheffield, 4 00 



As we have some $18 in our hands given for broom corn and cranberries, 

 there being but one entry, we award an extra premium to Joseph Kline of 

 Egremont, for four acres corn, $3 60 



For the best one acre corn, George M. Gibson of New Marlboro', $9 00 

 2d do , James Bullard of Lee, 8 00 



3d do., Frank Curtiss of Sheffield, 7 00 



4th do., ZacheusCandee of Sheffield, 6 00 



5th do., Samuel Goodrich of Stockbridgc, 5 00 



6th do., Frederick Abbey of Great Barrington, 4 00 



7th do., A. C. Butler of' Lenox, 3 00 



8th an extra premium to Cyrus Crosby of Stoekbridge, 3 00 



9th do., Charles Spurr of Sheffield, 3 00 



10th do., E. M. Winchell of Great Barrington, 3 00 



