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under objects other than agricultural, not specified, $44.75 

 was awarded and paid ; under trotting $64 was awarded and 

 paid. The society reports 428 members, — 299 males and 

 129 females. Three farmers' institutes were held : at Mid- 

 dlefield, February 1, on "Growing and feeding forage 

 crops;" at Chester, June 15, on "Equal taxation;" and at 

 Middlefield, September 4, on general topics. 



HILLSIDE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Incorporated. 1883, Acts of 1883, chapter 112. 



Originally raised by contribution $3,113.32; now has 

 $5,754.70 invested as a capital stock in real estate, fixtures 

 and cash. Total assets, $5,754.70: real estate, $4,660.(51 ; 

 bank funds, $490.10; bills due and unpaid, $404.35; cash 

 on hand, $199.64. Receipts in 1895, $1,781.58: bounty, 

 $600; bank funds, $24.60; new members, $160; donations, 

 $30.03; other sources, $966.95. Expenditures in 1895, 

 $1,341.08: premiums paid, $739.60; current running ex- 

 penses, $601. 48. The society offered in premiums $788 

 and awarded and paid $739.60,* which went to 26 cities 

 and towns. Three hundred and seventy-one persons re- 

 ceived premiums. Under head of farms $6 was awarded and 

 paid; under farm and pet stock $440.75 was awarded 

 and paid; under field and garden crops $43 was awarded 

 and paid; under farm and garden products $70.60 was 

 awarded and paid; under dairy products $13 was awarded 

 and paid; under domestic manufactures $77.50 was awarded 

 and paid ; under agricultural implements $8 was awarded and 

 paid; under youth's department $18.55 was awarded and 

 paid ; under objects other than agricultural, not specified, $37 

 was awarded and paid ; under trotting $24 was paid. The 

 society reports 606 members, — 582 males and 24 females. 

 Three farmers' institutes were held : at Chesterfield, Janu- 

 ary 8, on " Dairying ; " at Ashfield, February 27, on " Corn 

 culture" and "The silo and ensilage;" and at Cumming- 

 ton, September 24, when the public winter meeting of the 

 Board of Agriculture was discussed, and present methods of 

 agriculture compared with those of fifty years ago. 



* Of this amount $24 was for trotting premiums. 



