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tions and standing erect ; fields covered with rocks all taken out, large as 

 well as small, not one left, those fields enclosed with durable fences; moist 

 land anderdrained and made productive ; young and thrifty fruit trees 

 hearing delicious fruit in the room of the old moss covered unproductive 

 trees ; an abundance of choicest grapes where formerly there was only 

 now and then a farmer that raised any, and those of inferior quality ; the 

 last, but not the least improvement that we shall mention, is the improve- 

 ment in farmers barns. No good farmer at the present time would build a 

 barn of the old model of barns. There has been more improvement in 

 the building of barns than* houses or any other buildings. The farmer in 

 this respect have consulted convenience, comfort, economy and durability. 

 Those recently built are most all, where the lay of the land will permit, two 

 stories as it were. They have a basement underneath for stabling and shel- 

 ter for wagons, sleighs, farming tools and sheltering manure, which adds 

 greatly to the value of the manure, over that which has been suffered to re- 

 main out, and consequently well soaked before being put upon the land. 

 Good and profitable farming depends very much upon the amount and 

 quality of the manure produced and saved on the farm. • The best crops we 

 always found where there was the best manuring and cultivation. The 

 great improvements so noticable in Southern Berkshire in farming have been 

 produced very materially by the influence of the Housatonic Agricultural 

 Society, it has produced a stimulus to excel, or at least emulate his neigh- 

 bors in his improvements. 

 Your committee after careful examination award the following premiums: 



FOUR ACRES CORN — 33 ENTRIES. 



For the best four acres Corn, Elizur Smith of Lee, 

 9.d do., Alexander Belcher of Sheffield, 

 3d do., Jared Lewis of Great Barrington, 

 4th do., H. L. Smith of Lee, 

 nth do., B. N. Burteh of Sheffield, 

 6th do., J. P. Tobey of Great Barrington, 



ONE ACRE CORN — oU ENTRIES. 



Best one acre Corn, William O. Curtis of Lenox, 

 2d do., George Kellogg of Sheffield, 

 3d do., Miles Avery of Great Barrington, 

 4th do.. Zacheus Cande of Sheffield, 

 5th do., James Billiard of Lee, 

 (>th do., H. L. Smith of Lee, 

 7th do., H. D. Palmer of Stockbridge, 

 Having funds in our hands unprovided for we offer an extra premium on corn to D. S. 



Draper of Great Barrington, 

 Also, to Elihu Church of Alford, 



BUCKWHEAT — 22 ENTRIES. 



F< >r the best acre of Buckwheat, James H. Rowley of Egremont, 

 2d do., Martin Brown of Egremont, 

 3d do., R. Dwight Andrews of Sheffield, 

 4th do., Charles Spurr of Sheffield, 

 5th do., Zachcu:-: Candeof Sheffield, 



POTATOES- :2'.» ENTRIES. 



J or l" t one half acre of Potatoes, IT. S. Goodalc oi Mount Washington, 

 ■J. i do., William O Curtiss of Lenox, 

 3d do., Henry Werden of Richmond, 

 Hli do., George M. Gibson of New Marlboro, 

 5th (In., p. R. Hinckley of Lee, 

 Gth do., Miles Avery of Great Barrington. 



