INTRODUCTION 



FARM DEMONSTRATION WORK. 



It is not claimed by the State Department of Agri- 

 culture that the farm demonstration work is a part of 

 the work of the department. Originally this department 

 contributed out of its finances to the founding of the dem- 

 onstration work in the State, working co-operatively with 

 the Federal Department of Agriculture. After Congress 

 had passed the Smith-Lever bill and had assumed the ap- 

 propriations formerly made by the Rockefellow Founda- 

 tion Fund, the co-operative arrangement was made with 

 the State University at Lexington. 



It will always be a source of pride to the present 

 Conamissioner that it was upon his initiative that the 

 annual appropriation of $45,000 from the Federal Bu- 

 reau was apportioned to Kentucky for the farm demon- 

 stration work. These funds are used for the extension 

 work in this State, and the department . gladly prints 

 herewith reports from several of the county demonstra- 

 tion agents in Kentucky, whose salaries are now main- 

 tained upon a basis of the county paying one-half of their 

 salary, and the Federal Government the other half. There 

 are some forty counties in Kentucky who have regularly 

 employed county agents. The variety of assistance ren- 

 dered by these agents to the farmers can be gathered 

 from their papers as published herewith. 



A list complete to date of all county agents in Ken- 

 tucky, with their addresses, is appended that those inter- 

 ested may write them direct. Demonstration work in 

 Kentucky has only begun, uid. no field of endeavor offers 

 greater possibilities than this one. 



J. W. Newman, Commissioner of Agriculture. 



