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crockery, tables, etc. Total assets, $7,782.71: real estate, 

 $7,500; crockery, tables, etc., $200; cash on hand, $82.71. 

 Total liabilities consist of mortgages or like liabilities, to the 

 amount of $500. Receipts in 1894, $3,068.83: bounty, 

 $600; new members, $21 ; donations, $77.87 ; other sources, 

 $2,369.96. Expenditures, in 1894, $2,986 12 : piemiums 

 and gratuities paid, $1,179.15; current running expenses, 

 $600; interest, $37.50; other expenses, $1,169.47. The 

 society offered in premiums $1,700; awarded in premiums 

 and gratuities $1,210.75 and paid $1,179.15, which went to 

 13 cities and towns. One hundred and thirty-two persons 

 received premiums and gratuities. Under head of farms $46 

 was awarded and paid ; under form and pet stock $547 was 

 awarded and $524.41 paid ; under field and experimental 

 crops $48.25 was awarded and $46.50 paid ; under farm and 

 garden products $23.50 was awarded and $22.19 paid; 

 under dairy products $4 was awarded and paid ; under 

 domestic manufactures $38 was awarded and $34.42 paid ; 

 under agricultural implements $3 was awarded and paid ; 

 under trotting $480 was awarded and paid ; under objects 

 other than agricultural, not specified, $21 was awarded and 

 $18.63 paid. The society reports 630 members, — 339 

 males and 291 females. Three farmers' institutes were held : 

 at Oxford, April 12, on "Poultry culture;" at Webster, 

 INIay 12 and December 14, on "The horse and its dis- 

 eases. " 



PLYMOUTH COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Incorporated as the Agricultural Society in the county of Plymouth, 

 1819, Acts of 1819, chapter 2; name changed to Plymouth County 

 Agricultural Society in 1870, Acts of 1870, chapter 251. 



The society in its first report to the Board in 1853 re- 

 ported its permanent fund (par value) to be $9,550; now 

 has $35,304.14 invested as a capital stock in real estate, 

 cash, crockery, tables, etc. Total assets, $35,304.14: real 

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

 unpaid, $100; cash on hand, $4.14. Total liabilities, 

 $3,893.16: outstanding bills, $203.16; notes, $3,600. 

 Receipts m 1894, $13,060.05 : bounty, $600 ; new members, 



