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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Name of Society. 



Amount of 



Bounty paid, 



1918. 



Amesbury and Salisbury Agricultural and Horticultural Society, 



Barnstable County Agricultural Society 



Blackstone Valley Agricultural Society, 



Deerfield Valley Agricultural Society, 



Eastern Hampden Agricultural Society 



Essex Agricultural Society, ........ 



Franklin County Agricultural Society, 



Hampshire Agricultural Society, 



Hampshire, FrankUn and Hampden Agricultural Society, 



Highland Agricultural Society, 



Hillside Agricultural Society 



Hingham Agricultural and Horticultural Society, 



Hoosac Valley Agricultural Society, 



Housatonic Agricultiu-al Society, 



Lenox Agricultural Society, . . . . 



Marshfield Agricultural and Horticultural Society, . 



Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society, 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 



Middlesex North Agricultural Society, 



Nantucket Agricultural Society, 



Oxford Agricultural Society, 



Plymouth County Agricultural Society, ..... 



Quannapowitt Agricultural Society 



Union Agricultural Society, 



Westport Agricultural Society 



West Taunton Agricultural Society, 



Weymouth Agricultural and Industrial Society, 



Worcester Agricultural Society, ....... 



Worcester County West Agricultural Society, .... 



Worcester North Agricultural and Driving Association, 

 Worcester Northwest Agricultural and Mechanical Society, 



Worcester South Agricultural Society, 



Total 



S753 20 



1,000 00 



1,000 00 



955 25 



1,000 00 



938 00 



1,000 00 



821 80 



1,000 00 



968 40 



1,000 00 



893 40 



747 55 



1,000 00 



98 25 



697 15 



1,000 00 



1,000 00 



914 79 



962 50 



951 35 



670 30 



993 45 



850 40 



377 35 



377 05 



958 30 



1,000 00 



923 45 



1,000 00 



1,000 00 



1,000 00 



$27,851 94 



In order to allow the Department to continue the encourage- 

 ment of displays of agricultural products the General Court 

 passed an act authorizing the oflFering of prizes direct by the 

 State (chapter 241 of the General Acts of 1918). An appro- 



