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interest in the work throughout the whole county, and 

 have secured my demonstrators and co-operators, and 

 organized com and pig clubs. 



We have demonstrations on com, tobacco, orchards, 

 rape, cow peas, soy beans, alfalfa, rye, wheat, crimson 

 clover, winter oats, barley, strawberries, hog feeding, 

 and cattle feeding. 



Cotton seed meal had never been introduced here 

 as feed. Last winter we bought one carload on the co- 

 operative plan, with excellent results. Very little acid 

 phosphate had been used; 14% sold for twenty-one dol- 

 lars; 16% at twenty-five dollars, on time. Through the 

 Marion Milling Company and farmers' clubs, the farm- 

 ers have bought ten carloads of 16% acid phosphate at 

 fourteen dollars and sixty cents; and four carloads of 

 ground limestone. 



We have undertaken to standardize the cattle in 

 the county, and now have forty Hereford bulls in ser- 

 vice. 



Have gotten ten men started shipping cream. Have 

 helped in the construction of twelve wood stave silos, 

 vwo concrete and three home-made ones. Have planned 

 several dairy and cattle bams, some new structures and 

 eome remodeled. Have saved several cows that had 

 milk fever, and vaccinated hogs, the first work of the 

 kind ever done in the county, saving '95%. 



Have created a good deal of interest in the pig and 

 corn club work, and made a good showing at the pig 

 show held here in Marion August 28th; sent from this 

 show the pig that won second prize at the State Fair in 

 Louisville. I am making the rounds of the county schools 

 and organizing pig and corn clubs for the coming year. 

 Expect to introduce pure-bred hogs in the county 

 through the pig clubs. 



I had under my charge one piece of Timothy hay, 

 treated with acid phosphate and harrowed, which cut 

 8,220 pounds to the acre, cured hay. Also had one piece 

 of alfalfa, seeded in September, 1914, treated with acid 

 phosphate in the spring and harrowed after each- cut- 

 ting, which yielded five tons of cured hay to the acre. 

 Have some good demonstrations on corn, one field 

 planted in five different ways. Would like to give exact 



