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and grasses; more than fifty bushels of cow peas were 

 sown this year, not more than twenty last year; the 

 acreage of oats was increased about one-fourth, and 

 about twice as much rye was sown as a cover crop as 

 was sown last year. 



I had thirty-two boys enrolled in the Corn Club, 

 but only seven are finishing the work. Considering their 

 handicaps and opportunities, they are doing well. Have 

 five Pig Club boys, and one boy from each club won a 

 trip to the State Fair. 



The County Superintendent of Schools has given 

 me permission to do what I want to, and can, in the 

 schools, but he does not agitate club work nor any other 

 line of work. 



In performing my work I have ridden horseback 

 and walked fourteen hundred and thirty-three miles, 

 traveled one thousand and eighty-five by rail, and one 

 hundred and sixty-five by auto. This last and most of 

 the railroad travel was done on our trip to Western 

 Kentucky. Hoeace E. McSwain, 



County Agent. 



KNOX COUNTY. 



On Feb. 1, 1915, I was appointed County Agent of 

 Knox county, Kentucky. Since that time I have devoted 

 my entire time to the work. When I became agent there 

 were only four cultivators in the county, now we have 

 one hundred and twenty-eight. At that time there were 

 only three or four herds of pure-bred hogs in the county, 

 and now we have increased this number to about fifteen. 

 I have vaccinated something like two hundred hogs, and 

 have not lost one that I have treated. I have had the 

 people to clean up their premises, use plenty of lime, 

 bum all hog beds and dead carcasses, and at this writ- 

 ing there is no cholera in the county, the first time in 

 several years we have been free from the disease. I 

 met with the officers of the First National Bank Tues- 

 day, October 12th, and asked them to buy, as an adver- 

 tising matter for them, ten Duroc-bred gilts for the 

 county, in the place of buying calendars and other stuff 

 as advertisements- — the bank to give these gilts out to 

 ten farmer boys, then to have these boys give the bank 



