No. 4.] KETURNS OF SOCIETIES. 315 



HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Incorporated 1814, Acts of 1814, chapter 19. 



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

 the amount of its permanent fund (par vakie) to be $3,255.26 ; 

 now has $4,000 invested as a capital stock in real estate, 

 crockery, tables, etc. Total assets, $4,122.56 : real estate, 

 $3,850; bank funds, $122.56; crockery, tables, etc., $150. 

 Total liabilities, $1,117.75: outstanding bills, $292.75; 

 mortgages or like liabilities, $825. Receipts in 1893, 

 $1,877.30: bounty, $600; new members, $45; donations, 

 $109.75; other sources, $1,122.55. Expenditures in 1893, 

 $1,877.30: premiums and gratuities paid, $658.50 ; current 

 running expenses, $473.86; interest, $47.38; other ex- 

 penses, $697.56. The society offered in premiums $879, 

 and aw^arded and paid in premiums and gratuities $658.50, 

 which went to 16 cities and towns. Seventy-four persons 

 received premiums and 3 gratuities. Under head of farm 

 and pet stock $374 dollars was awarded and paid ; under 

 field and experimental crops $25 w^is awarded and paid ; 

 under farm and garden products $119 w^as awarded and paid ; 

 under dairy products $8 w^as awarded and paid ; under do- 

 mestic manuflictures $30.25 was awarded and paid; under 

 objects strictly agricultural, not specified, $77 was awarded 

 and paid; under trotting $595.75 was awarded and paid, 

 under objects other than agricultural, not specified, $25.25 

 was awarded and paid. The society reports 782 memljers, 

 — 549 males and 233 females. Three farmers' institutes 

 were held: at Sunderland, January 31, on "Money crops: 

 potatoes, onions and tobacco ; " at Northampton, February 

 16, on "Tobacco culture;" at Amherst, March 24, on 

 " Village improvements," and a cooking school. 



HAMPSHIRE, FRANKLIN AND HAMPDEN AGRICULT- 

 URAL SOCIETY. 



IncorporatedlBlS, Acts of 1818, chapter 125. 



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

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



