1891.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 33. 317 



ANNUAL REPORT OF FRANK E. PAIGE, 



Treasurer of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, 



For the Year ending Dec. 31, 1S90. 



Receia-ed. 



Cash from Dr. J. P. Lynde, balance of last year, . . $15 00 



Cash from State Treasurer, appropriation, .... 10,000 00 



Cash from farm, etc., 1,422 07 



Cash from fertilizer account, 1,905 00 



$13,342 07 



Expended. 



Cash paid salaries, $4,478 03 



Cash paid laboratory supplies, 1,213 01 



Cash paid printing and office expenses, .... 838 34 



Cash paid farmer and farm labor, 2,050 10 



Cash paid farm stock and feed, 1,278 96 



Cash paid incidental expense, 899 93 



Cash paid construction and repairs, 599 22 



Cash paid expense of board of control, .... 7562 



Cash paid fertilizer account 1,565 00 



Cash on hand, 343 86 



$13,342 07 



SUMMARY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS 

 STATE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



{Dec. 31, 1890.) 



Buildings, etc., $30,702 00 



Farm inventory (live stock, crops, etc.) 2,299 45 



Office furniture (chemical laboratory), 1,456 75 



Chemicals and chemical apparatus (chemical laboratory), 2,605 95 

 Furniture, herbariums and library (agricultural and physi- 

 ological laboratory), 903 25 



Instruments, apparatus, etc. (agricultural and physiologi- 

 cal laboratory), 822 10 



Total of inventory, $38,789 50 



Boston, Mass., Jan. 8, 1891. 

 This is to certify that I have examined the books and accounts of Frank E. Paige, Treas- 

 urer of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, for the fiscal year ending Dec. 

 31, 1890, and find them correct, and all disbursements properly vouched for, with a balance 

 of cash in treasury of three hundred forty-three dollars and eighty-six cents, which is 

 shown to be in bank. 



W. R. SESSIONS, 



Auditor. 



