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crockery, tables, etc. Total assets, $35,666.27 : real estate, 

 $35,000 ; crockery, tables, etc., $200 ; bills due and unpaid, 

 $75; cash on hand, $391.27. Total liabilities, $7,160.40: 

 premiums due and unpaid, $1,160.40; mortgages or like 

 liabilities, $6,000. Receipts in 1897, $11,169.53: bounty, 

 $600; donations, $38.55; other sources, $10,530.98. Ex- 

 penditures in 1897, $10,778.26: premiums and gratuities 

 paid, $1,462.50; current running expenses, $2,727.13; in- 

 terest, $582.94; other expenses, $6,005.69. The society 

 offered $3,503.50 in premiums, awarded $2,622.90 in pre- 

 miums and gratuities and paid $1,462.50. Premiums and 

 gratuities were awarded to parties residing in 37 cities and 

 towns. Three hundred and tifty-six persons received pre- 

 miums and 17 gratuities. Under head of farms $32 was 

 awarded; under farm and pet stock $661.75 was awarded; 

 under field and garden crops $22 was awarded ; under farm 

 and garden products $158 was awarded; under dairy prod- 

 ucts $17 was awarded ; under domestic manufactures $166.65 

 was awarded ; under objects strictly agricultural, not speci- 

 fied, $45 was awarded; under trotting $1,462.50 w^as paid; 

 under objects other than agricultural, not specified, $58 was 

 awarded. The society reports 1,521 members, — 880 males 

 and 641 females. Three farmers' institutes were held : at 

 Middleborough, February 12, on "Barnyard manure and 

 commercial fertilizers : what they are, and how to use 

 them;" at West Bridge water, April 2, on "Economic sum- 

 mer and winter feeds for milch cows," "The usefulness of 

 the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture" and "The 

 war against the gy[isy moth ; " and at Bridgewater, Decem- 

 ber 21, on " Obstacles to successful farming and how to 

 overcome them." 



SPENCER FARMERS' AND MECHANICS' ASSOCIATION. 



Incorporated 1888, Acts of 1888, chapter 87- 



Originally raised by contribution, $4,034.08 ; now has 

 $8,950 invested as a capital stock in real estate, crockery, 

 tables, etc. Total assets, $9,013.62: real estate, $8,000; 

 crockery, tables, etc., $950; cash on hand, $63.62. Total 

 liabilities consist of mortgages or like liabilities to the 



