30 TREASURER S REPORT. 



There are now no outstanding or unsettled bills against the 

 Society that are known to the Treasurer, and its affairs appear to 

 be in a satisfactory condition, — the results of an increasing in- 

 terest on the part of its members and patrons. 



Some provision will be necessary to meet the accruing 

 interest on the note held by the Fitchburg Savings Bank against 

 the Society, which will be due on the first of May next, the 

 funds in the treasury at the present time not being sufficient for 

 ■that purpose. Through the liberality of your President, the 

 Treasurer was enabled to pay promptly the interest when due, 

 durmg the past year, he having without compensation, advanced 

 money sufficient to meet the same. With this debt paid, the 

 only obstacle in the way of its complete success would be 

 removed, and its permanency and usefulness assured for years 

 to come. 



This Society has, to a considerable degree, become a local 

 institution, sustained and carried on largely by the energ}^ and 

 enterprise of the citizens of this city, and in the future, if its 

 organization is maintained and its yearly gatherings are held, it 

 must receive its support and aid from the same source. Its im- 

 portance as a local interest is evidently appreciated, and there 

 appears to be a very general desire for its continuance and 

 success. Therefore the necessity of removing the incumbrance 

 resting on the property of the Society should be considered, 

 and some plan should at once be presented and put in opera- 

 tion, whereby the Society may be relieved of this burden. When 

 this is accomplished, nothing then remains in the way of its 

 success, and no reason exists why the Society should not prosper 

 and be of great benefit to its members and to the agricultural 

 interests of this portion of the county. 



F. C. CURRIER, Treasurer. 



