354 TwENTY-FiEST Biennial Eepoet 



FIELD MEETINGS. 



Mar. 22— C. H. Berbllng, tree pruning (fruit), 8 present. 



Mar. 24 — L. W. Miller, tree pruning (fruit), 6 present. 



Mar. 26 — S. D. Lovelace, tree pruning (fruit), 9 present. 



Mar. 30 — B. F. Cotner, tree pruning (fruit), 12 present. 



Apr. 6 — J. L. Watson, tree pruning (fruit), 4 present. 



May 15 — R. H. Tanner, straw spreader, 22 present. 



Sept. 9 — Andrew Miller, selecting seed corn, 4 present. 



Sept. 15 — B. F. Cotner, field selecting seed corn, 3 present. 



Sept. 18 — C. B. Mattingly & Son, field selecting sunflower seed (ob- 

 ject), to select heads born singly on the stalk; well filled, 

 short stalk, and not near stalk that has more than one 

 head to the stalk. 



Sept. 23 — Oscar Winn, field selection of seed corn, 5 present. 



Sept. 28 — Prank Holland, field selection of seed corn, 5 present. 

 Total field meetings, 11; total attendance, 80. 



LIVE STOCK PURCHASES. 



J. P. Page, registered Holstein bull, two registered cows. 



C. J. Barlow, 1 registered Hampshire boar, two registered sows. 



R. H. Tanner, 1 registered Hereford bull, two registered cows 



(and eight high grades.) 

 T. R. Johnson, 1 registered Hereford bull, two registered cows 



(and six high bred grades.) 

 T. H. Strickland, 1 registered Duroc Jersey boar. 

 Total spent for pure bred live stock, $1,745.00. 



Three cars of feeders purchased to be finished on ensilage, 130 head 

 in the three cars, average cost per cwt., $7.65. 



OTHER PURCHASES BY DEMONSTRATORS. 



One manure spreader. One straw spreader. 



One lime spreader. Nine spraying outfits. 



Six tandem attachments for disc harrows. 



LIME AND FERTILIZERS PURCHASED. 



One car acid phosphate, 45,000 lbs.. Barlow, Ky. 

 One car acid phosphate, 36,000 lbs., LaCenter, Ky. 



This is the first chemical plant food used in this county, and 

 cost $14.40 per ton f. o." b. Barlow and LaCenter. 

 One car ground lime stone, 43 tons, to be used on alfalfa. 

 One car ground lime stone, 32 tons, to be used on alfalfa. 



SILOS. 



There lias been erected six concrete silos and three 

 wooden ones due to demonstration work. These con- 

 crete silos are the first in the county, and have an av- 

 erage capacity of one hundred and ten tons, and an 

 average cost of $321.00. 



The three wooden silos are 10'x28', 50 tons capac- 

 ity; 12'x28', 75 tons capacity; 14'x30', 120 tons capac- 



