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I have tested perhaps one hundred samples of soil" 

 for acidity or the need of lime. 



I planned one dairy bam, helped to plan one stable, 

 two combination horse and dairy bams, and the remod- 

 eling of one tobacco barn into a dairy bam. Consulted 

 and planned with farmers on the location of soils, build- 

 ing of milk houses, and laying of concrete floors and drain 

 ways in old dairy bams. 



In soil fertility work, have been running tests and 

 demonstrations with sweet clover, cow peas, soy beans, 

 crimson clover, rock phosphate., acid phosphate and ni- 

 trate of soda. 



Helped to work on plans for beautifying county in- 

 firmary grounds, Ryland Country Club and a few lawns. 



Organized a Boys' Corn Club of 24 members, but all 

 of them will not finish with the year, for the fields of 

 some were drowned out, and some could not get the land. 

 However, some members have worked faithfully. 



Have made talks at church convention on the coun- 

 try church, addressed County Teachers' Institutes on 

 agriculture in country schools, and on the organization 

 of com and pig clubs. 



I got the farmers and business men to back a prop- 

 osition of a sub-experiment farm in the county, and the 

 Fiscal Court agreed to donate two thousand dollars for 

 the purchase of the land for the use of the Agronomy De- 

 partment. Have interviewed farmers on practically 

 every subject imaginable along agricultural lines. 



Wayland Ehoadbs, 

 County Agent. 



KNOTT COUNTY. 



Since I have been agent in Knott county I have car- 

 ried on demonstrations with forty-nine men and have 

 one hundred and six co-operators. It is very difficult 

 to get complete records, owing to the high percentage of 

 illiteracy among the farmers. 



The mountaineer is very conservative, and I have 

 not succeeded in organizing any farmers' clubs among 

 them. 



Owing to the bad condition of roads, it is impossi- 

 ble to get people out at night, except in one or two com- 

 munities. I have held twenty-nine meetings, including 



