324 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DKPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



progress. This farm is divided between the Animal Husbandry 

 Division and the Dairy Division. 



Duriiiir the year work was done on tlie hog house, the house for 

 the aninial-brecding work was carried ahnost to completion, and a 

 poultry house was erected. A commodious horse barn is nearing 

 completion. The place has been thoroughly fenced and tlie land put 

 into a systematic rotation. During the present year a silo and a 

 sheep barn will be Iniilt and the land drained. 



Provision should be made at an early date for the erection of cot- 

 tages for the employees of the farm. At present most of these men 

 live some distance from the farm, and this is not conducive to the 

 welfare of the farm. B}' having the permanent employees housed on 

 the property it will not only be better protected, but the help will be 

 more contented and much more permanent. 



THE DAIRY DIVISION. 



Work relating to the dairv industry is carried on bv the Dair'V 

 Division, of which Mr. B. IT. Kawl is chief. 



As part of the varied activities of this division a great diversity 

 of public meetings are attended by its representatives. During the 

 past year such meetings numbered over G50 and included national, 

 State, and local fairs; international, national, and State conventions; 

 farmers' institutes and short courses in dairying; local meetings of 

 farmers and business men; creamery meetings; market milk meet- 

 ings; and butter-scoring contests. Assistance was given in the 

 organization of 14 live-stock associations. Eleven and a half weeks 

 were spent on agricultural trains. Avith meetings two or three times 

 a day. At the National Dairy Show a 12-cow demonstration was 

 conducted for 10 days. This attracted much attention, and some of 

 the buildings used are being copied on farms. 



DAIRY FARMING INVESTIGATIONS. 



The principal lines of dairy farming investigations, in charge of 

 Mr. Helmer Kabild, are southern field work, western field work, cow- 

 testing associations, and experimental work. 



SOUTHKBN FIELD WORK. 



The work for the development of dairying in the South consists, 

 as heretofore, in introducing and improving the business of dairying 

 in new sections. This work has lx>en carried on by 10 men in Ala- 

 bama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Maryland,"^ North Carolina, 

 South Carolina, and Virginia. An extra man has been put on in 

 southern Mississippi to develop dairying, particularly in that part 

 of the boll-weevil territory which has been freed froni cattle ticks. 



The interest of the farmers in this work is growing. The work is 

 all done in cooperation with agricultural colleges (or, in some cases. 

 State departments of agriculture), as is the case with all educational 

 work of the division. In one State the work has been taken over 

 entirely by the State authorities, and it is hoped that the same may 

 later be done in other States. 



In the greater portion of the South the dairymen are scattered and 

 the work must necessarily be done for the most part with Individ- 



