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six dollars and seventy-five cents went to parties not resident 

 of the State. Three hundred and thirty-two persons received 

 premiums. Under farms $30 was awarded and paid ; under 

 farm stock $654.75 was awarded and paid; under field 

 and experimental crops $226 was awarded and paid ; under 

 farm and garden products $159.75 was awarded and paid; 

 under dairy products $44 was awarded and paid ; under 

 domestic manufactures $190 was awarded and paid ; under 

 agricultural implements $18.25 was awarded and paid; 

 under objects strictly agricultural, not specified $8.75 was 

 awarded and paid ; under trotting $1,409.50 was awarded 

 and paid ; under objects other than agricultural, not specified, 

 $123.50 was awarded and paid. The society reports 929 

 members, — 914 males and 15 females. Three farmers' insti- 

 tutes were held: at Cheshire, November 27, on "Plant 

 Growth, and the General Experience of Farmers with Differ- 

 ent Crops in Soils of Different Qualities ; " at Williamstown, 

 December 4, on " Obstacles to Successful Farming and how 

 to overcome them ; " at North Adams, December 29, on 

 "Farming as a Business." 



HOUSATONIC AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Incorporated 1848, Acts of 1848, chapter 101. 



The society in its first report to the Board in 1853 stated 

 the amount of its permanent fund (par value) to be 

 $6,335.33 and it now has $11,552.59 invested as a capital 

 stock in real estate, stocks, and bank funds. Total assets, 

 $12,440.73: real estate, $10,000; stocks, $1,000; bank 

 funds, $552.59; crockery, tables, etc., $200; cash on hand, 

 $688.14. Total liabilities, $571.50: premiums due and 

 unpaid, $21.50; estimated outstanding bills, $250; note, 

 $300. Receipts in 1891, $6,548.66: bounty from the 

 State, $600; stocks, $49.26; bank funds, $20.22; new 

 members, $154; all other sources, $5,725.18. Expendi- 

 tures in 1891, $5,791.04: premiums paid, $2,030; current 

 running expenses, $2,626.80; interest, $66.74; other ex- 

 penses, $1,067.50. The society offered $2,427.50 in 



