10 BIENNIAL, REPORT OF DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE 



• conditions especially in the shops and factories of the State, as well as 

 in every industrial vocation in which women and children are em- 

 ployed. To meet the growing demand upon this department the appro- 

 priation should be at least doubled. 



The Forestry Department is receiving more recognition from the 

 public than ever before, and the line of work promulgated through 

 this organization is one that, while by its very nature is slow, is de- 

 stined to become more popular and remunerative to those who co- 

 operate and practice its teachings as time goes on. 



Marked improvement has been made in the physical equipment 

 such as the nursery located on the Kentucky State Fair Grounds, 

 which in the past biennium furnished over 200,000 seedlings for 

 planting on worn-out farm lands, in parks, on school grounds, and 

 along the public highways of the State. Four fire towers have been 

 erected in the past biennium in the eastern timbered section of the 

 State for the detection of forest fires. These fire towers, with others 

 erected in the past, help to protect one-half million acres of timber- 

 land from fire, and fifty miles of telephone communications have been 

 established connecting the fire towers and forest wardens into one 

 immense operating unit. 



There is noticeably growing a feeling of confidence in the Forest 

 Service, a feeling that after all growing and protecting timber is the 

 same as growing and protecting an agricultural crop, only on an en- 

 larged scale. 



Tobacco is one of Kentucky's leading agricultural crops and the 

 department prides itself on procuring the most accurate and de- 

 pendable report in this line of any state in the Union. 



Stud, bull and jack licenses have increased from year to year, and 

 while the Kentucky law does not require the licensing of only pure 

 bred sires, it affords an accurate idea of the number of each in service 

 in the State; and through the campaign conducted by the College of 

 Agriculture and other agencies cooperating with this department, the 

 use of the scrub sire is being rapidly eliminated. Kentucky claims 

 the distinction of having three of the counties in the U. S. that have no 

 scrub sires. 



The Kentucky State Fair has made rapid and marked progress 

 within the past two years, and is now in the class of the most 

 progressive State Fairs in America, but is yet greatly handicapped for 

 sufficient funds for plant equipment and premium funds. 



In reviewing the activities of the department in the past eighteen 

 months, I can say as Commissioner that every plan and policy under- 

 taken by me has been loyally supported by every member of the de- 

 partment as well as the College of Agriculture, the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, the city and rural press, business men, bankers, civic 

 and luncheon clubs, county agents and vocational leaders and local 

 officials, the various branches of the State Department and farmers 

 of the State of Kentucky. 



