Part I.] 



REPORT OF SECRETARY. 



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pointed by the Board, and the prize money to be paid directly 

 to the winners from the office of this Board. This will mean, 

 in other words, that the administrative work of offering prizes 

 for agricultural objects will have to be done directly by the 

 Board instead of by the societies as heretofore. 



I therefore recommend the introduction of a law into the 

 Legislature providing for the distribution of prize money by 

 the State Board of Agriculture, and that an appropriation 

 of $40,000 be made for this work. 



Poultry Premium Bounty. 



Seventeen poultry associations applied for State bounty 

 during the past year. As the amount applied for was greater 

 than the amount allowed by law, the applications were scaled 

 down, and each society received 90.29 per cent of the amount 

 applied for. 



The following table shows the societies which received 

 bounty, with the amount applied for and the amount received, 

 respectively: — 



Name of Society. 



Amount 



paid in State 



Premiums. 



Allotment. 



Abington, . 

 Amherst, 

 Attleboro, . 

 Eastern Massachusetts, 

 Deerfield Valley, 

 Gloucester, 

 Holyoke, 

 Lenox, 

 Milford, . 

 ■ New England, . 

 Northern Berkshire, . 

 Northampton, . 

 Norwood, . 

 Quannapowitt, . 

 Springfield, 

 Taunton, . 

 Worcester, . 

 Total, . 



588 00 



147 50 



217 00 



84 00 



78 00 



80 00 



223 00 



102 50 



161 00 



127 50 



56 50 



118 00 



108 00 



88 00 



182 00 



48 00 



300 00 



$2,215 00 



$79 47 



133 18 



195 93 



75 85 



70 43 



77 66 



201 35 



92 55 



145 37 



115 12 



51 02 



106 54 



97 51 



79 47 



164 33 



43 35 



270 87 



$2,000 00 



