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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Agriculfurol Prize Money, 1918 — Concluded. 



Name of Organization. 



Amount of 

 Prizes paid 

 by State. 



Number 



of 

 Winners. 



Marshfielcl Agricultural and Horticultural Society, 

 Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society, . 

 Middlesex North Agricultural Society, . 

 Nantucket Agricultural Society, 



Oxford Agricultural Society 



Plymouth County Agricultural Society, 



Rockland Fair, 



Union Agricultural Society, .... 



Westport Agricultural Society, 



Wej-mouth Agricultural and Industrial Society, 



Worcester Agricultural Society, 



Worcester Northwest Agricultural Society, 



Worcester South Agricultural Society, 



Total,. 



$499 00 

 470 50 

 487 00 

 725 00 



562 25 

 494 25 

 100 00 



563 00 

 271 00 

 651 30 

 254 50 

 725 00 

 461 00 



51 



84 

 96 

 20 

 100 

 28 



S12,943 80 



1,582 



In addition to the above, prizes were offered for the fairs of 

 the Essex Agricultural Society at Topsfield, the Hampshire, 

 Franklin and Hampden Agricultural Society at Northampton, the 

 Worcester North Agricultural and Driving Society at Fitchburg, 

 and the Worcester County West Agricultural Society at Barre; 

 but all of the above fairs were canceled on account of the 

 influenza epidemic. For this reason the total amount of the 

 appropriation was not used. I recommend that for the coming 

 year the appropriation to be used at the agricultural fairs be 

 increased to $25,000. 



Farmers' Institutes. 

 The institute work of the year was carried on as usual. 

 There were 48 institutes held with 78 sessions, there having 

 been more two-session meetings than ordinarily. One society 

 held five institutes; two held four; three held three; four, two; 

 and seven, one each. Speakers were furnished to eleven meet- 

 ings held by organizations other than those represented on the 

 old Board of Agriculture. The cost to the Department of the 

 institutes held was $1,817.25, and the aggregate attendance 



