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eixty will be able to make good reports, and I hope to 

 get at least twenty-five good reports from the Pig Club 

 boys. I have distributed several hundred bulletins 

 among the farmers, bearing on most every subject and 

 phase of the work that would be of interest to them; 

 have devoted one hundred and sixty-five days to the 

 work, and am at present securing demonstrators for next 

 year, securing data for crop reports, and organizing 

 club work among the boys of the county. 



Respectfully submitted, 



J. R. McDanell, 



County Agent. 



GRANT COUNT y. 



From November 11, 1914, to October 2, 1915, or 45 

 weeks. 



The agent has traveled a total of 2,860 miles on the 

 road by buggy or motorcycle and 1,160 miles by rail. 

 He has made 305- visits to demonstrators and 366 visits 

 to co-operators; 128 telephone calls; 545 interviews and 

 consultations; written 426 letters; 409 packets of bulle- 

 tins, circulars, etc., mailed; 13 articles for newspapers; 

 taken part in 24 meetings with a total attendance of 1,508. 

 He has vaccinated 80 calves for black-leg. 



The agent is conducting 68 demonstrations with 40 

 demonstrators, of which 6 are with com, 11 with acid 

 phosphate, 11 with alfalfa, 3 with crimson clover, 6 with 

 sweet clover, 2 with vetch, 4 with cow peas, 5 with soy 

 beans, several with pulverized lime; 1 with cottonseed 

 meal as fertilizer; 9 in the spraying and care of or- 

 chards ; 3 in dairying, and 5 in miscellaneous. 



Before the coming of the agent no acid phosphate 

 had been used in the county — this year over 20 tons were 

 used at the suggestion of the agent, and it is safe to fore- 

 tell the buying of several carloads next year because it 

 is more effective on G-rant county soil than complete fer- 

 tilizers costing ten dollars a ton more. 



Under the encouragement of the agent an increased 

 interest in pure-bred dairy cattle has developed, par- 

 ticularly in the whole southern part of the county. Along 

 with 28 dairymen the agent visited some dairies of Pen- 

 dleton county and the result has been the purchase of 



