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clover and rye, one hundred and twenty acres of cow 

 peas, and one hundred and ten acres of soy beans were 

 planted nnder the direction of the county agent. There 

 were only two failures out of twenty-eight with alfalfa, 

 and both of those were spring-sown plots. 



In 1914 six silos were built through the influence of 

 demonstration work. All of these were concrete. 



In July, 1914, the farmers and business men here 

 were requested to write to the proper authorities and 

 ask that an experiment to control and eradicate hog 

 cholera be carried on in Henderson county. The appeal 

 was granted and about six thousand hogs have been 

 treated up to the present time with only a small loss. 

 Serum and veterinarian services are free to the farmers 

 who have infected herds. In 1914 the county agent sold 

 to the farmers of this and adjoining counties ninety thou- 

 sand cubic centimeters of hog cholera serum made by 

 the State, the serum depot being under the county 

 agent's charge. 



In 1914 eighty-two farmers' meetings were held, 

 with a total attendance of about 3,086 persons. Twenty- 

 one schools were visited. In all, four hundred and nine- 

 ty-six Iniles were traveled by rail, and three thousand 

 two hundred and eighteen by team. Minor demonstra- 

 tions were also conducted in stump blowing, drainage, 

 com cultivation, apple packing, seed selection, tobacco 

 cultivation, liming, lawns, truck gardening, strawberry 

 raising, home gardening, milk testing, hog feeding, poul- 

 try raising, concrete work, and Boys' and Girls' Club 

 work. Thirty-one improved implements were bought in 

 1914. 



In 1915 one hundred and fifty-six acres of alfalfa, 

 forty-eight acres of crimson clover, eighty acres of peas, 

 one hundred and four acres of soy beans, seventy-five 

 acres of red clover, twenty acres of winter oats, sixty 

 acres of barley, twenty acres of rape, and twenty-five 

 acres of sweet clover were planted in demonstration plats. 

 Active assistance was given in organizing a new agri- 

 cultural fair, which was a decided success. The State 

 Farmers' Institute was held here, the total attendance 

 for the three days being about 3,000 people, and the in- 

 stitute was pronoujxced by the Commissioner of Agricul- 



