REPORTS FROM COUNTY SOCIETIES. 457 



Stock issued $30 00 



Gate receipts 1,980 35 



Rent of bootlis, licenses, &c 231 75 



Received from grand stand, 64 55 



" dining hall 1 371 24 



" " horse stalls 78 50 



Money loaned 3,799 00 



Received from all other sources 64 10 



$6,019 49 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



Paidfor printing $77 17 



" premiums 657 00 



" speed premiums 206 49 



" for building grand stand .-. 564 34 



" " 16J^ acres of land 1,619 85 



" contingent orders 996 00 



" on indebtedness 2,474 64 



Amount on hand 24 00 



$6,619 49 



We, the president, secretary, and treasurer of the Union Agricultural 

 society, located at Litchfield, do hereby certify that the above is a correct 

 statement of the receipts and disbursements of said society for the year end- 

 ing Dec. 20, 1883. 



R. W. FREEMAN, President. 



L. B. AGARD, Secretary. 



D. H. MILLS, Treasurer. 



The society held a spring exhibition in May, and a fall fair in October, and 

 this statement includes receipts and expenditures of both. 



L. B. AGARD, 

 Secretary. 

 Litchfield, Mich., December 20, 1883. 



TUSCOLA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Tuscola County Agricultural 

 Society, was held at the Town Hall, Vassar, on Monday last. The usual 

 business was gone through with. According to the Treasurer's report, a bal- 

 ance of $57 remains in his hands. Secretary Hayes made the following 

 report. 



AVHEAT. 



The wheat crop of the past year was considerably below an average in 

 quantity, but fair in quality. The frequent and heavy rainfall for weeks 

 previous and up to harvest time not only had a tendency to delay the gather- 

 ing of the crop, but added materially to the cost of harvesting, especially the 

 running of reapers. During the early part of harvest it was not an uncom- 

 mon or unusual sight in a wheat field to see a harvester stuck fast in the mud. 

 A few days later the program changed. We learned by experience that this 



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