No. 4.] RETURNS OF SOCIETIES. 353 



$3,096,40: premiums and gratuities paid, $1,600.10; cur- 

 rent running expenses, $1,343,90; interest, $152.40. The 

 society offered in premiums $2,124.25 ; awarded in premi- 

 ums and gratuities $1,678.85; and paid $1,600.10, which 

 went to 24 cities and towns. One hundred and five persons 

 received premiums and 79 gratuities. Under head of farms 

 $54 was awarded and paid ; under farm stock $808.50 

 was awarded, and $778.50 paid ; under field and experimental 

 crops $28.75 was awarded, and $18.25 paid; under farm and 

 garden products $103.85 was awarded, and $80.60 paid; 

 under dairy products $24 was awarded and paid ; under 

 domestic manufactures $87.25 was awarded, and $74.25 

 paid ; under agricultural implements $12 was awarded and 

 paid ; under objects strictly agricultural, not specified, $50 

 was awarded and paid ; under trotting $510 was awarded and 

 paid ; under objects other than agricultural, not specified, 

 $38 was awarded and paid. The society has 1,835 mem- 

 bers, — 926 males and 909 females. Three farmers' insti- 

 tutes were held: at Brookfield, January 20, on " Sanitary 

 Arrangements of Farm Houses and Barns " and ' ' The 

 Yeast of the Soil;" at Charlton, February 25, on "De- 

 pression in Agriculture " and ' ' Observations of Agriculture 

 in the South ; " at Sturbridge, December 29, on " The Dairy 

 Bureau and Testing of Milk " and ' ' Sanitary Arrangements 

 of Farm Houses and Barns." 



WORCESTER COUNTY WEST AGRICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



Incorporated 1851, Acts of 1851, chapter 278. 



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

 its permanent fund (par value) to be $3,175 and it now has 

 $12,600 invested as a capital stock in real estate, crockery, 

 tables, etc. Total assets, $13,134.75 : real estate, $11,600; 

 crockery, tables, etc., $1,000; cash on hand, $534.75. 

 Receipts in 1891, $2,093.71 : bounty from the State, $600 ; 

 new members, $80 ; donations, $55.63 ; all other sources, 

 $1,358.08. Expenditures in 1891, $1,970.09 : premiums 



