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BUCKWHEAT. 



For the best acre, Leonard Post of Alford, $5 00 



2d do., Henry Feck of Alford, 4 00 



3d do., Gilbert Ford of Great Harrington, 3 00 



4th do., William AVilcox of Sheffield, 2 00 



5th do., Egbert Conch of Great Barrington, 1 00 



ONE HALF ACRE POTATOES. 



For the best one half acre of Potatoes, Henry S. Goodale of Mount 



Washington, 1 00 



Oats and barley in 1860; five loads sheep manure; grass in 18G7; no manure; soil gravelly loam; 

 plowed once, seven inches deep, April 20th; harrowed and furrowed; cost $3; eighteen loads ma- 

 nure applied in winter and early spring, plowed under; worth about $18; sowed April 29, two and 

 one-half bushels Gleason, quartered, dropped one foot apart, in furrows three feet apart, and cov- 

 ered with one-horse plow; cost $3.50; harrowed when just coming up— 27th of May— put shovel 

 plow through 17th of June, hoed once; cost $2.50; dug Oct. 5th, Hcxamcr's prong hoe; cost about 

 five cents per bushel. 



2d do., E. M. Langdon of Lee, 6 00 



3d do., A. Gaines of Stockbridge, 5 00 



4th do., Miles Avery of Great Barrington, 4 00 



5th do., M. I. Wheeler of Great Barrington, 3 00 



6th do., Wm. O. Curtis of Lenox, 2 00 



Extra, Merrick G. Hall of Great Barrington, 2 00 



E. Church of Alford, 2 00 



ONE QUARTER ACRE WHITE BEANS. 



For the best one quarter acre of White Beans, Uriah Brett of 



Monterey, 3 00 



2d do., H. D. Palmer of Stockbridge, 2 00 



3d do., Nathaniel Burtis of Hillsdale, 1 00 



Extra, D. B. Fenn of Stockbridge, 2 00 



ONE QUARTER ACRE SUGAR BEETS. 



For the best one quarter acre of Sugar Beets, Warren Crissey of 



Great Barrington, 5 00 



2d do., Charles Dunning of Lenox, 4 00 



3d do., Albert M. Howk of Lee, 3 00 



ONE QUARTER ACRE CARROTS. 



For the best one quarter acre of Carrots, Daniel Warner of Great 



Barrington, 5 00 



Corn in 1866; carrots in 1867; six loads rotton barn yard manure; soil loamy; plowed once eight 

 or nine inches; no other preparation; cost $1.50; seven loads barn yard manure spread before 

 plowing in 1868; value $7; sowed with machine, June 5, Orange County Seed, one-half bushel; 

 cost $1.50; hoed and weeded three times by hand; cost $5; harvested last week in October, by hand; 

 cost $5; three tons carrots on one-fourth acre. 



2d do., Nelson Joyncr of Egreinont, 4 00 



3d do., Newton Brewer of Monterey, 3 00 



4th do, T. D. Thatcher of Lee, 2 00 



