EETUENS OF SOCIETIES. 



AMESBURY AND SALISBURY AGRICULTURAL AND 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Incorporated 1881, Acts of 1881, chapter 204. 



Originally raised by contribution $1,002.32 ; now has 

 |7,G10 invested as a capital stock in real estate, crock- 

 ery, tables, etc. Total assets, $7,755.28 : real estate, 

 $7,370.12; crockery, tables, etc., $239.89; cash on hand, 

 $145.27. Total liabilities consist of notes amounting to 

 $1,900. Receipts in 1894, $2,256.82: bounty, $600 ; new 

 members, $83; donations, $2.50; other sources, $1,571.32. 

 Expenditures in 1894, $2,111.55: premiums and gratuities 

 paid, $528.15; current running expenses, $62.79; interest, 

 $139.29; other expenses, $1,057.32. The society offered 

 in premiums $1,500, awarded $855.90 in premiums and gra- 

 tuities and paid $852.15, which went to 15 cities and towns. 

 Eighty-four dollars and fifty cents went to three towns out- 

 side the State. Three hundred and twenty-five persons 

 received premiums and 261 gratuities. Under head of farms 

 $26 was awarded and paid; under farm and pet stock $386 

 was awarded and paid ; under field and experimental crops $5 

 was awarded and paid ; under farm and garden products 

 $178.65 was awarded and $176.90 paid ; under dairy products 

 $3.75 was awarded and paid; under domestic manufactures- 

 $107 was awarded and $104.25 paid; under objects strictly 

 agricultural, not specified, $29 was awarded and paid ; under 

 objects other than agricultural, not specified, $122.25 was 

 awarded and $121.25 paid. The society reports 230 mem- 

 bers, — 203 males and 27 females. Four farmers' institutes 

 were held at Amesbury : January 16, on "The Horse's foot 

 and its diseases " and *' H}'giene of farm animals ; " January 

 30, on "Practical poultry culture " and "Corn culture for 

 feed;" February 20, on "Stock feeding and fertilizers;'* 

 and March 7, on " Corn culture" and " General fruit cult- 



ure." 



