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crockery, tables, etc. Total assets, $8,310.14: real estate, 

 $7,500; crockery, tables, etc., $200; cash, $610.14. Total 

 lialnlities, mortgages or like liabilities, $1,000. Receipts in 

 1893, $3,279.03: bounty, $600 ; new members, $55 ; dona- 

 tions, $34; other sources, $2,590.03. Expenditures in 

 1893, $2,668.89 : premiums paid, $1,194.69 ; current run- 

 ning expenses, $400; interest, $62.50; other expenses, 

 $1,011.70. The society ofi'ered in premiums $1,700, 

 awarded $1,213.50, and paid $1,194.69, which went to 15 

 cities and towns. Forty-five dollars went to two towns out- 

 side the State. One hundred and twenty-six persons re- 

 ceived premiums. Under head of :ftirms $40 was awarded 

 and paid; under farm and pet stock $495.50 was awarded 

 and $482.69 paid ; under field and experimental crops $56.75 

 was awarded and $55.88 paid ; under farm and garden prod- 

 ucts $21.50 was awarded and paid ; under dairy products $6 

 was awarded and paid ; under domestic manufactures $28.25 

 was awarded and $25.49 paid ; under agricultural implements 

 $3 was awarded and paid ; under trotting $540 was awarded 

 and paid ; under ol)jects other than agricultural, not speci- 

 fied, $22.50 was awarded and $20.13 paid. The society re- 

 ports 625 members, — 336 males and 289 females. Three 

 farmers' institutes were held: at Oxford, January 21, on 

 *' Cultivation of fruit ; " at Millbury, December 21, on " Taxa- 

 tion " and " Poultry; " at Dudley, Deceml)er 27, on " But- 

 ter making and milk testing" and "Equal taxation." 



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 hi 1853 reported 

 its permanent fund (par value) to be $9,550 ; now has $35,- 

 217.98 invested as a capital stock in real estate, cash, crock- 

 ery, tables, etc. Total assets, $35,217.98: real estate, 

 $35,000; crockery, tables, etc., $200; cash, $17.98. Total 

 liabilities, notes, $3,200. Receipts in 1893, $10,780 : bounty, 

 $600; new members, $46; other sources, $10,134. Ex- 

 penditures in 1893, $10,762.02 : premiums and gratuities 



