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results, but tlie corn is not gathered. The same quan- 

 tity of each division will be weighed to determine the 

 results. The treated sections appear to be easily twice 

 as good as the untreated. Am also doing some soil build- 

 ing by using soy beans and cow peas, hogging off and 

 turning under the vines. On a forty-acre field, seeded 

 to peas, we received fifty dollars clear of expenses and 

 turned under heavy coat of Arines, this to be followed 

 with wheat, using two hundred pounds of acid phos- 

 phate and seeded to grass. Acid phosphate was used 

 en nearly all of the grass and wheat sown this fall. Have 

 succeeded in getting a number of farmers interested in 

 cutting bushes, stopping gullies and cleaning up fence 

 rows. Introduced the Hartig Attachment (for sub- 

 soiling), which will be used on large acreage of corn 

 land this fall and winter. In .all cases where we used 

 this method last winter we received good results. This 

 land had been plowed shallow for so long that it had 

 become thin and had poor under drainage, hard-pan hav- 

 ing formed from three to five inches under the surface. 



We bought large quantities of spraying materials, 

 co-operatively, and succeeded in getting the fruit trees 

 sprayed from three to five times, and have a ten thou- 

 sand bushel apple crop being harvested as a result, said 

 to be the best the county has ever produced. 



The business men of the county say the crop this 

 year had better preparation and received better culti- 

 vation than in the past. I have been giving my time 

 to the preparation and working up of a county fair and 

 stock show, to be held in Marion October 29th, to en- 

 courage better live stock, and have had to do this with 

 very little help, as it is a new thing here. 



Weekly average : Travel horseback 100 miles, visited 

 40 farmers, distributed 70 bulletins, wrote 8 letters, held 

 5 meetings, had 12 telephone calls, and talked to 3 

 schools. 



J. Egbert Bird^ 



County Agent. 



