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THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT 
THEMAPES MANURES ON OATS 
BARLEY AND WHEAT. 
FIVE YEARS’ EXPERIENCE.— Oats, 80 bushels. Wheat, 40 bushels 
and Barley 50 bushels per acre. 
OFFICE, JSTos. 346 and 348 BROADWAY 
CT ^NZTSTTr 1. 1883. 
Amount of Net Cash Assets, January, 1, 1882.845,130,006.86 
RE VENUE A CCOENT. 
Premiums.«..... ... $9,604,788.38 
Less deferred premiums January 1, 1882 . 452,161.00—$9,152,627.38 
Interest and rents (including realized gains on real estsi* 
soldi . .3,089,273.21 
3 VJ 1 U ) ....* * * ■ .. *• ’__ n nnn m A ll All ACA OlC 10 
OB8BURSEITIENT ACCOUNT 
Losses bf death, including Reversionary additions to same.$1 
Endowments matured and discounted, including Reversionary additions 
to same.. . ■ . 
Annuities, dividends, and return^ premiums on cancelled policies. 3 
Total paid Policy-holders...$6,210,309.71. 
Taxes and re-insur'ances. . 
Commissions, brokerages, agency expenses and physicians’ fees. 1 
Office and law expenses, salaries, advertising, printing, &c ... 
Cash in bank, on hand, and in transit (since received) .1 
Invested in United States, New York City and other slocks, (market value, 
$19,953,956.521. 1 
Real Estate..• -. -.:.. 
Bonds and mortgages, firs! lien on real estate, (buildings thereon insured 
for $17,950,000.00 and the policies assigned to the Company as ad¬ 
ditional collateral security).•.1 
Temporary loans, (secured by stocks, market value, $5,191,139.50). 
* Loans on existing policies, tthe reserve held by the Company on these 
policies amounts to $2,690,961).... 
♦Quarterly and semi-annual premiums on existing policies, due subse¬ 
quent to January 1,1883—. . .... . ... 
♦Premiums on existing policies in course of transmission and collection. 
Agents’ balances . . --••• .. 
Accrued interest on investments January 1.1883. 
Excess of market value of securities over cost...... 
*A detailed schedule of these items will accompany the usual annual 
report filed with the Insurance Department of the State of New York. 
CASH ASSETS, January 1, 1883. 
Appropriated as follows: 
Adjusted losses, due subsequent to January 1, 1883.— 
Reported losses, awaiting proof, Ac.... ..... 
Matured endowments, due and unpaid, (claims not presented). 
Annuities, due and unpaid (uncalled for!.... .-:. 
Reserved for re-insurance on existing policies: participating insurance 
at 4 per cent. Carlisle net premium ; non-participating at 5 per cen(. 
Carlisle net premium .. . * 
Reserved for contingent liabilities to Tontine Dividend, 
Fund, January 1. 1882, over and above a 4 per cent. 
reserve on existing policies of that class.»............ .$2,054,244.03 
Addition to the Fund during 1882 for surplus and matured 
MANURE SPREADER, 
Pulverizer & Cart Combined. 
One load pur out by the Spreader will 
do as much pood to tlie present crops as 
two ordinarily spread by hand. 
Texas,Florida,Cute. Canada and Germany.every— 
whore telling *a own try of economy of labor,"*'* *£“*-■- - *' 1 7 . , „ 
saving and beitcr use of manure. Handles alt kinds of manure, from the conntest to the ilnest, ashes, lime, 
inurtc, cottonseed, ctc.,wetor dry, an, amount per acre, broadcast or In drills, In one-tenth the time It can bo 
done by band. Covers everv inch of ground with finely pulverized manure, insuring rapid growth and uniform 
crops: Its quality of work notftp'iroftcllCd by band labor at ten lime* tlie cost, Will save lift cost In one n main, 
reat) the testimony of bcatfuniicrs in every state, saving »hcy_would sooner do without their reaper or mower, 
illustrated cataloijue free, address ivE.il P & li L lll’EE HIE ft. CO., Syracuse, fc. V. 
DEDUCT— . ,_ J . 
Returned to Tontine policy-holders during the year on 
Matured Tontines.. 
Balance of Tontine Fund January 1,1883. 
Reserved for premiums paid in advance. 
VETERAN GORN SHELLER and ONE HOUSE POWER 
Divisible Surplus at 4 per cent. 4,948,841.79 
Surplus by the New York State Standard, at 4 A per ct., estimated at 10,000,000.06 
From the undivided surplus or $4,948,841 the Board or Trustees has declared a Reversionary dividend 
to participating policies in proportion to their contribution to surplus, available on settlement of next 
annual premium. 
During the year 12,178 policies have been issued, insuring $11,325,520. 
{ Jan. 1,1879, 45,005. , Jan. 1, 1879, $125,232,144. 
Number of ) Jan. 1 , 1880, 45,705. Amount \ Jan. 1,1880, 127.417,763. 
jxumoer o j Jan , 188 ,, *8.548. Ian. 1, 1881, 135.726.916. 
Policies in force I Jan. 1,1882. 53,927. at risk / Jan. 1. 1882. 151.760.824. 
policies in iorce ( ^ ^ 1883 6Q 150 ( Jan . 1, 1883, 171.415.097. 
Jan. 1, 1879, $2,811,436. 
Jan. 1,1880, 3,120,371. 
Jan. 1,1881. 4.295,096. 
Jan. 1.18S2, 4,827,036. 
Jan. 1,1883, 4,948,841. 
% Revolutions of Tumbling Rod to one round 
of Horse. 
CAPACITY OF 
SHELLER 
30 bushels pr hour. , 
1879 , 2,033,650. Divisible 
1880, 2,317,889, Surplus at 
1S81, 2,432,654. 4 Der cent 
,000 9 too n, 0 per cent.. 
Death- 
claims 
paid 
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