No. 4.] RETURNS OF SOCIETIES. 575 



$600 ; new members, $70 ; donations, $74.24 ; other sources, 

 $1,200.54. Expenditures in 1898, $1,957.82 : premiums 

 and gratuities paid, $616.90; current running expenses, 

 $1,027.46; interest, $64; other expenses, $248.96. The 

 society offered $862.25 in premiums and awarded and paid 

 $616.90 in premiums and gratuities, which went to 17 cities 

 and towns. Five dollars went to one city and one town 

 outside the State. Two hundred and thirty persons received 

 premiums and 2 gratuities. Under head of farm and pet 

 stock $342 was awarded ; under farm and garden products 

 $194 was awarded ; under dairy products $3 was awarded ; 

 under domestic manufactures $39.40 was awarded; under 

 agricultural implements $10 was awarded; under trotting 

 $525 was paid ; under objects other than agricultural, not 

 specified, $28.90 was awarded. The society reports 837 

 members, — 590 males and 247 females. Three farmers' in- 

 stitutes were held: at Hadley, February 18, on "German 

 farms and farming" and " Book farming v. moon farming; " 

 at Montague, February 25, on "Dairy farming" and "Farm- 

 ing as a business ; " and at Amherst, March 5, on " Mutual 

 relations of creamery patrons and experiment stations." 



HAMPSHIRE, FRANKLIN AND HAMPDEN AGRICULT- 

 URAL SOCIETY. 



Incorporated 1818, 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 $8,141.29 ; 

 now has $2,535.97 invested as a capital stock in personal 

 property. Total assets, $2,660.97 : real estate lease, $800; 

 bank funds, $643.08 ; crockery, tables, etc., $910; bills due 

 and unpaid, $125 ; cash on hand, $182.89. Total liabilities 

 consist of outstanding bills to the amount of about $125. 

 Receipts in 1898, $3,696.95: bounty, $600; new members, 

 $121 ; other sources, $2,975.95. Expenditures in 1898, 

 $2,896.22 : premiums and gratuities paid, $1,200.71 ; cur- 

 rent running expenses, $1,507.26; other expenses, $188.25. 

 The society offered SI, 682. 75 in premiums, awarded $1,322.66 

 in premiums and gratuities and paid $1,200.71, which went 



