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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



[Pub. Doc. 



Prevention of Forest Fires. 



Appropriation for 1913, S20,000 00 



Receipts : — 



Spofford estate, 200 00 



Protest on Spofford check, 1 35 



Wm. D. Sohier, ....... 400 00 



Town of Wakefield, 350 00 



Town of Halifax, 50 00 



Town of Plympton, 75 00 



Town of Hanson, 100 00 



Town of Duxbury, 100 00 



Town of Whitman, 75 00 



Town of Hanover, 100 00 



Town of Marshfield, 50 00 



Town of Bourne, 300 00 



Town of Wareham, . • 150 00 



Town of Sterling, 18 75 



Town of Dunstable, 11 81 



Town of Ashland, 11 50 



Wm. D. Sohier, agent, 500 00 



Town of Upton, 12 50 



New England Telephone and Telegraph Com- 

 pany, 23 



,., S22,506 14 



Expenditures: — 



Salaries, * . $11,301 60 



Travel, 4,262 42 



Printing, 538 32 



Stationery and postage, 256 38 



Equipment, 2,568 69 



Construction, 1,877 62 



Telephone, 1,275 90 



Express, 59 51 



Sundries, 365 52 



22,505 96 



Balance returned to treasury, $0 18 



Reimbursement for fire-fighting apparatus to towns. 



),012 48 



Suppression of Gypsy and Brown-tail Moths. 

 The balance shown on the general appropriation for the 

 suppression of the gypsy and brown-tail moths, as carried at 

 the end of the fiscal year, will be all practically expended in 

 reimbursements to towns and cities for the work of the year 

 ending Nov. 30, 1913. 



