150 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



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SYNOPSIS OP EXPENDITURES FOR 1S73"AND JANUARY 1874. 



Premiums.. - --- 11,595 93 



Secretary's salary §00 00 



Loan life membership 300 00 



Expensesof Fair, 1873 - - - 327 93 



Expenses of orchard committee, 1873 44 33 



Expenses of orchard committee, 1873 — -. 35 00 



Printing --- 31 50 



Expenses Executive Committee... — - 36 55 



Expenses Battle Creek meeting .- 10 85 



Damage by fire - --- - -- H 50 



Expenses Boston Fair - - 16 15 



Expenses Treasurer 7 60 



C. J. Dietrich, Secretary 1873 - 88 50 



Postage and check stamps - 37 14 



Drayage, express and freight - -.- 36 40 



Stationery.. --- 17 30 



Note and interest - 51 54 



Secretary of State, boxes and packing books 44 55 



Exchaniie 35 



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Total expenses from January 1 , 1873, to February 1, 1874 $3,493 11 



RECAPITULATION OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES FOR THE YEAR 1ST3 AND MONTH OF 



JANUARY 13T4. 



Total receipts 13 months $3,713 45 



Total expenditures 13 months 3,493 11 



Balance on hand February 1, 1874 $820 34 



REMARKS BY THE TREASURER. 

 To the President, Executive Committee, and Members of the State Pomological Society: 



Gentlemen: — I have made as full an expose of the financial affairs of the 

 Society as was possible, giving the items of receipts and expenditures, and also 

 the main heads of the same, as will be noticed. I have treated the month of 

 January, 1874, as a part of the financial year of 1873. This was deemed best 

 because the $i,(iOO voted the Society by the State Agricultural Society was 

 not received until January, 1874, and its expenditure was mostly for the debts 

 of 1873. 



The main facts made prominent by the report are, that the debt of 1872 is 

 paid; that most of the debts of 1873 are paid; that the amount received for 

 life members since December 1, 1873,— 1300,— is loaned at 10 per cent, and 

 that there is in the treasury, February 1, 1874, $230.34. 



The largest item of expenditure is that for premiums, amounting to near 

 $1,600. The distribution of this sum cannot but inspire the confidence of 

 exhibitors at our Fairs, and must tend greatly to stimulate competition. I have 

 aimed to pay all premiums, and when gentlemen have donated their premiums, 

 have taken pains to place the amounts on the records in proper shape, so that 

 every donator has credit for his generous action toward the Society. 



In December, 1873, $100 was estimated for expense of fitting an office at 

 Grand Rapids. We have not been obliged to pay out a cent for this purpose. 

 The office of the Society is at No. 56 Canal street. Grand Rapids, where the 

 Deputy Treasurer, S. L. Fuller, makes it headquarters. 



It will be noticed that the expenses of the Executive Committee ($36.55) 

 were trifling. I acknowledge the receipt of a bill from J. M. Sterling, a mem- 

 ber of the committee for 1873, amounting to $35, donated to the Society. 



