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registered stock by several, particularly registered 'Hol- 

 stein bulls. 



Under co-operation of tbe agent, alfalfa ground has 

 been more carefully prepared, sweet clover more widely 

 sown ; orchards sprayed and apples of a fine quality have 

 been produced from a half dozen of these sprayed or- 

 chards. The county farm orchard was sprayed under 

 close direction of the agent and gave better fruit than 

 had ever been produced there. 



Interest in better seed com and wheat and alfalfa 

 is evidently following propaganda of the agent, and the 

 Com Show last fall. New varieties of alfalfa, the Grimm 

 and Orenberg, are under test in the county. 



Six com club boys turned in record books. The 

 com boys' ten ear sample exhibits at the State Fair won 

 two prizes, a first and a third. 



The county agent has visited many schools of the 

 county and has gained the co-operation of a number of 

 the teachers in teaching the children many things about 

 the farm. 



D. H. FULLEETOlSr, 



County Agent. 



HENDERSON COUNTY. 



In January, 1914, I became County Agent in Hen- 

 derson county, Kentucky. My first work, after I had 

 surveyed the field here, was with orchards, spraying and 

 pruning. During the first few months of my work I 

 pruned trees in forty orchards and sprayed in fifty, and 

 then in the spring at planting time I succeeded in plant- 

 ing four new orchards. In the fall of 1914 I assisted 

 the fruit growers with their exhibits at the State Fair, 

 where fifteen first and six second ribbons were won. In 

 November of 1914 all the prizes secured and all the work 

 pertaining to the fruit and com show was done by the 

 county agent, and the fruit show was pronounced by the 

 judge to be the best ever held in Kentucky. In the Wine- 

 sap class there were twenty entries. 



In 1914 two hundred and thirteen acres of alfalfa, 

 fifteen acres of crimson clover, twenty acres of alsike, 

 seventy-five acres of winter oats, eighty acres of red 

 clover, ten acres of vetch and rye, fifty acres of crimson 



