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real estate, $7,500; crockery, tables, etc., $200; cash on 

 hand, $217.09. Total liabilities consist of mortgages or 

 like liabilities to the amount of $500. Receipts in 1895, 

 $2,674.39: bounty, $600 ; new members, $48 ; donations, 

 $27.25; other sources, $1,999.14. Expenditures in 1895, 

 $2,457,30: premiums paid, $1,100.40; current running 

 expenses, $500; interest, $12.50; other expenses, $8 I 1.40. 

 The society ottered in premiums $1 ,700, awarded $1,121.25* 

 and paid $1,100.40,* which went to 13 cities and towns. 

 One hundred and twenty-seven persons received premiums. 

 Under head of farms $48 was awarded and paid; under 

 farm and pet stock $5(31.50 was awarded and $549.88 paid; 

 under field and garden crops $44.25 was awarded and $42.25 

 paid; under farm and garden products $17.50 was awarded 

 and $16.20 paid; under dairy products $9 was awarded and 

 $8 paid; under domestic manufactures $39.75 was awarded 

 and $36.38 paid; under agricultural implements $4 was 

 awarded and paid; under objects other than agricultural, 

 not specified, $17.25 was awarded and $15.69 paid; $380 

 was paid for trotting. The society reports 642 members, 

 — 345 males and 297 females. Three farmers' institutes 

 were held: at Dudley, January 18, on "Tuberculosis;" 

 at Oxford, February 27, on " The demands of the future 

 upon the Xew England tanner ; " and at Auburn, Decem- 

 ber 4, on " How can farmers most profitably employ their 

 dairies" and "Tuberculosis." 



PLYMOUTH COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Incorporated as the Agricultural Society in the county of Plymouth, 

 1819, Acts of 1819, chapter 2 ; name changed to Plymouth County 

 Agricultural Society in 1870, Acts of 1870, chapter 251. 



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

 the amount of its permanent fund (par value) to be $9,550; 

 now has $35,200 invested as a capital stock in real estate, 

 crockery, tables, etc. Total assets, $35,310: real estate, 

 $35,000; crockery, tables, etc., $200; cash on hand, $110. 

 Liabilities consist of notes to the amount of $4,600. Re- 

 ceipts in 1895, $4,965.83: bounty, $600; new members, 



* Of these amounts $380 was for trotting premiums. 



