54 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Selectmen in account with the Town of Iloulton. 



Du. 



To resources turned over from last year. . $4,859 55 



'' indebtedness carried forward to next year 3,011 81 



'' taxes assessed and committed for collection 10,400 00 



** State school fund, railroad and telegraph tax received, 1,500 00 



" moneys received from all other sources 500 00 



$20,271 36 

 Cr. 



Bv resources carried over to next year. S4,537 12 



indebtedness turned over from last year 3,610 26 



paid State tax 2,000 00 



'^ county tax 1,200 00 



'' school districts 4,500 00 



" town charges, including paupers, highways and 



bridges, etc 4,423 19 



$20,271 36 



This makes a trial balance, and the items which make up the 

 several amounts should be found under their appropriate heads in 

 other parts of the report. 



STRAWBERRY CULTURE. 

 By A. J. TOLMAN, Member of the Board, Knox County. 



Read at Farmers' Institute at "West Bath. 



Within the last decade probably no branch of horticulture has 

 received more attention, and there is none in which more experi- 

 ments have been tried, or in which greater improvements have been 

 made, than in the culture of the strawberry. The introduction of 

 new varieties combining many good qualities — size, flavor, and pro- 

 ductiveness, the latter especially- a necessary requirement in a market 

 beny — has been carried on to such an extent that it would seem we 

 had reached the acme of perfection in this delicious fruit. Take the 

 varieties as we find them on the list, from the fine aromatic flavor of 

 the Boston Pine to the large-sized Sharpless, and there seems to be 

 but little more to be desired. 



