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state shall be so distributed as premiums, the person, persons, 

 company or aaaociation claiming the same, or to whom the same 

 may be awarded, shall first deliver in writing, to the president of 

 such society an accurate and complete description of the process, 

 in preparing the soil, including the quantity and quality of the 

 manure applied, in raising the crop and in feeding the animal, in- 

 cluding the kind and quantity of food, as near as may be, and also 

 of the expense and product of the crop, or of increase in the value 

 of the animal, with the view of showing accurately the profit of 

 cultivating the crop or of feeding or of fattening the animal. 



§ 90. Annual report to the commissioner of agriculture and 

 state society. The president and treasurer of any agricultural 

 society which receives any money of the state or acts as the agent 

 of the state in the distribution of money of the state as premiums, 

 shall annuallv before the fifteenth of December, transmit to the 

 commissioner of agriculture a detailed account of the expenditure 

 or distribution of all such moneys as shall have come into their 

 hands during the preceding year, and of such other moneys as they 

 may have received from voluntary contributions for distribution as 

 premiums, stating to whom, and for what purpose paid, with the 

 vouchers therefor. The presidents of the several county societies 

 and of the American institute shall annually transmit in the month 

 of December, to the executive committee of the New York state 

 agricultural society, all such reports or returns as they are re- 

 quired to demand from applicants, for premiums, together with an 

 abstract of their proceedings during the year which shall be ex- 

 amined by such executive committee, and that they shall condense, 

 arrange and report the same, with a statement of their own pro- 

 ceedings to the legislature on or before the first day of March in 

 each year. 



§ 91. This chapter shall take effect immediately. 



