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Tlic amount of premiums offered by the Society exceed $20,000. 

 The amount drawn by exhibitors in 1883, amounted to nearly one 

 half of that sum. The amount appropriated by the State being but 

 17,500, we are compelled to liave attractions that will return us 

 sufficient revenue to make the premium list varied and complete. 



Our financial statement of race account will show the following: 



Dr. 

 Added money and purses $14,005 00 



Cr. 



Receipts from entries $9,165 00 



Receipts from privileges 4,855 02 



13,520 02 



Balance $484 98 



Thus it will be seen that the net amount we are out in this depart- 

 ment is less than $500, while the gate receipts are, for the Park alone, 

 $13,256 50 for the week. The income derived from this is used in the 

 payment of premiums, expenses, and improvements. 



This plain statement is made for the purpose of thoroughly 

 enlightening those who are prone to condemn this portion of the 

 exhibition. We hold that the breeder should receive the same con- 

 sideration, at our hands, as the producer. We do not desire to dis- 

 criminate in favor of either, but as the receipts show, the breeder has 

 assisted us in procuring funds to distribute among the producers. 



The Pavilion display was fully up to the standard. As we were 

 compelled to once more use the old building, we had some apprehen- 

 sion of the result financially, but the result shows the receipts to be 

 up to the average. Many applications that were made with the 

 understanding that we were to occupy the new building, were with- 

 drawn on account of the unability to obtain the space necessary. 

 The completion of The State Agricultural and Industrial Exposition 

 Building now enables us to state that we are in a condition to accom- 

 modate all who may apply. 



It is the intention of the Board, with the always willing spirit of 

 the people of the State, to make the Fair of 1884 eclipse any hereto- 

 fore given — the Board having concluded to extend the time to two 

 weeks, thereby encouraging the exhibition of industrial products, as 

 many have Jieretofore refrained from making an expensive exhibit 

 owing to the shortness of time the articles were on exhibition. 



As the result, a new and much larger list of premiums will be 

 offered. The issuance of a new list will now be necessary, augmented 

 by the addition of liberal awards, embracing the products of every 

 industry of the State. By means of correspondence, and thorough 

 distribution of our premium lists, we desire to reach all who may be 

 engaged in the production of both agricultural and industrial products. 



The intense interest manifested by the exhibition of the various 

 cereal productions made by Sonoma County through the Sonoma 

 County Pomona Grange, has encouraged the Board to give for the 

 most extensive, perfect, and varied exhilntion of farm products (ex- 

 clusive of live stock) exhibited by counties, the sum of six hundred 

 dollars, divided into four premiums, of three hundred dollars to the 

 best, one hundred and fifty dollars to the second best, one hundred 

 dollars to the third best, and fifty dollars to the fourth best; it being 

 understood, that if agreeable to the exhibitor, the i)remium lots will 

 be forwarded to the World's Fair at New Orleans. In tliis connec- 



