RETURNS OF SOCIETIES. 



AMESBURY AND SALISBUBY AGRICULTURAL AND 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Incorporated 1881, Acts of 1881, chapter 204. 



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

 $8,241.05 invested as a capital stock in real estate, crockery, 

 tables, etc. Total assets, $8,544.77 : real estate, $7,873.29 ; 

 crockery, tables, etc., $367.76; cash on hand, $303.72. 

 Total liabilities consist of notes to the amount of $1,900. 

 Receipts in 1898, $2,351.16: bounty, $600; new members, 

 $21; donations, $16.80; other sources, $1,713.36. Ex- 

 penditures in 1898, $2,087.65: premiums and gratuities 

 paid, $735.05; current running expenses, $205.50; inter- 

 est, $121; other expenses, $1,026.10. The society offered 

 $1,600 in premiums, awarded $735.05 in premiums and 

 gratuities, and paid $720.50, which went to 19 cities and 

 towns. Seventy-three dollars went to 6 towns outside 

 the State. Five hundred and thirty-five persons received 

 premiums and 25 gratuities. Under head of farms $'2Q 

 was awarded ; under farm and pet stock $288 was awarded ; 

 under farm and garden products $163.90 was awarded; 

 under dairy products $3.25 was awarded; under domestic 

 manufactures $99.20 was awarded; under objects strictly 

 agricultural, not specified, $20 was awarded ; under ob- 

 jects other than agricultural, not specified, $134.65 was 

 awarded. The society reports 246 members, — 213 males 

 and 33 females. Three farmers' institutes were held : at 

 Amesbury, January 26, on " Market gardening " and " The 

 care and feed of dairy cows ; " at Newbury, February 11, 

 on " Paying crops for small forms" and "Poultry farm- 

 ing;" and at Amesbury, February 23, on "Economical 

 feed for dairy cows" and "The New England farmer." 



