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The six clubs tliat used the lime have also purchased 

 co-operatively their fertilizers, pure-bred stock and field 

 seeds, and all are pleased with the results, and co-opera- 

 tion will be practiced more in the future. The Tyner 

 Club has purchased pure-bred hogs, bulls, and poultry, 

 and out of a membership of forty-eight, only five have 

 refused to discuss publicly any subject assigned to them. 



Through the school campaign and farmers' clubs 

 I succeeded in. organizing a com club in each of the 

 three counties, with a total membership of 386, and a 

 large per cent, of said membership has grown its acres 

 of com, and all the talk now is about the boys' com 

 plats, and the success they have made. I attended the 

 teachers' institute in each of the three counties, and 

 succeeded in getting committees appointed to draft pro- 

 grams for school fairs and com clubs, which I am now 

 about ready to carry out, beginning at Booneville, Octo- 

 ber 8th and 9th, McKee October 15th and 16th, Man- 

 chester October 22d and 23d, with a program for the 

 school children as well as com club boys. With the co- 

 operation of the teachers, we are expecting success with 

 our first attempt, with good prizes offered for all farm 

 products, making a specialty of the crops grown by my 

 demonstrators. We are to have a parade by com club 

 boys and tomato club girls. 



I have traveled two thousand seven hundred and 

 forty-six nules horseback since January 9, 1915, and one 

 thousand two hundred and eighty miles by rail (three 

 hundred and eighty-seven miles were traveled on Sun- 

 day, in order to be present on court days). I have at- 

 tended forty-two farmers ' club meetings and special 

 farmers' meetings, and have addressed three thousand 

 and ninety-eight farmers ell told. Have addressed on 

 my own appointments forty-nine meetings of boys and 

 girls, with a total attendance of two thousand and nine- 

 ty-eight. Have made personally one hundred and sixty- 

 four visits to demonstration classes, and have visited 

 and talked personally with seven hundred and fifty-six 

 farmers on farm work. Harv^e had conferences or pub- 

 lic discussions with three hundred and eighteen educa- 

 tors in some way or other, and have talked with one 

 hundred and seventy-two business men relative to agri- 



