Expenditure. 



& * 



1,580 Salaries of Secretary and Official Staff 1.686 



140 Pensions to Offlcials 1*0 



794 Rent, Lighting, Cleaning, Wages, &c. (say) 750 



556 Printing and Stationery 500 



161 Postage and Telegrams 160 



256 Miscellaneous 300 



1,091 Journal 880 



761 Chemical Department '^00 



250 Botanical Department 250 



200 Zoological Department 200 



402 Veterinary Department. . . • '^00 



189 Examinations for National Diploma (R.A.S.E. Share) 220 



2,500 Contribution from Subscriptions to Show Fund 2,500 



8,880 ^M^ 



Exceptional Expenditure. 



£ £ 



— Donation to the Prince of Wales's Fund 1.000 



31 Hills' Bequest— Excess Expenditure for 1914 35 



— Index to Journal 100 



150 Contribution towards Woburn Farm ... 150 



26 Subscription to Veterinary Congress . — 



25 Catalogue lor Library — 



315 Printing Text Book — 



71 Deficit on Woburn Farm — 



50 Contribution to Laives' Centenary Fund — 



37 Advertising Grain Show — 



186 Awards for Agricultural Skilled Labour — 



9,771 9,931 



& 



Estimated Receipts 10,010 



Estimated Expenditure 9,931 



598 Estimated Receipts over Expenditure 79 



He thought that the contribution of 150Z. towards the Woburn Farm met 

 the request put forward by the Woburn Committee that the grant should be 

 the same as last year. Dealing with Woburn, he would like to say that they 

 had increased their expenditure very considerably. When the affairs of the 

 Society were in a bad way, and the cost of the different branches of the 

 Society cut down, the total expenditure on Woburn was TS71. In 1912 they 

 increased Dr. Voelcker's salary by 150?., bringing the total up to SS71. In 

 1914 they agaiti increased the vote by another 150Z., making a total grant for 

 that year of 1,036Z. He thought the exj)lanation of that last increase was 

 that the Dukes of Bedford very generously used to run the Woburn Farm, but 

 that when the Development Commission was appointed the present Duke 

 naturally said that he thought they should take it over. The Duke used to 

 give 6001. per annum, and occasionally to pay deficits, but they had never 

 been able to get out of the Development Commission more than 500?., which 

 left a deficit of lOOZ. They threw in another 50Z. for the expenditure on a 

 grass farm taken over a few years ago. Altogether the increased expenditure 

 on the Chemical and Woburn Department was no less a sum than 800?., the 

 expenditure in 1911 being 737?., and last year 1,036?. 



