RETURNS OF SOCIETIES. 



AMESBURY AND SALISBURY AGRICULTURAL AND 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Incorporated 1881, Acts of 1881, cbapter 204. 



Originally raised by contribution, $1,002.32; now has 

 $8,121.97 invested as a capital stock in real estate, crockery, 

 tables, etc. Total assets, $8,180.13 : real estate, $7,716.69 ; 

 crockery, tables, etc., $405.28; bills due and unpaid, $25; 

 cash on hand, $33.16. Total liabilities consist of notes 

 to the amount of $1,600. Receipts in 1899, $3,045.45: 

 bounty, $600; new members, $27 ; other sources, $2,418.45. 

 Expenditures in 1899, $2,937.29 : premiums and gratuities 

 paid, $763.70; current running expenses, $145; interest, 

 $130.98; other expenses, $1,897.61. The society offered 

 $1,500 in premiums, awarded $773.65 in premiums and 

 gratuities, and paid $763.70, which went to 19 cities and 

 towns. Fifty dollars and eighty-five cents went to 5 towns 

 outside the State. Three hundred and eighty-one persons 

 received premiums and 112 gratuities. Under head of farms 

 $15 was awarded and paid ; under farm and pet stock 

 $287 was awarded and $282 paid; under farm and garden 

 products $161.15 was awarded and $158.15 paid; under 

 dairy products $3.25 was awarded and paid; under domestic 

 manufactures $106.35 was awarded and $102.65 paid; under 

 agricultural implements $1 was awarded and paid ; under 

 objects strictly agricultural, not specified, $89 was awarded 

 and $86.30 paid; under objects other than agricultural, not 

 specified, $119.90 was awarded and $115.35 paid. The 

 society reports 256 members, — 222 males and 34 females. 

 Three farmers' institutes were held : at Amesbury, February 

 10, on "Milk" and "The hundred-dollar cow ; " at Ames- 

 bury, March 3, on "Extensive agriculture" and "Travels 

 in Texas among the farms and ranches ; " and at Newbury, 

 March 15, on "The horse's foot" and "The horse and his 

 diseases." 



