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Avhicli I followed up until we took a vote on tke bond 

 issue of $200,000, whicli carried 7 to 1 in the county. 



We have had our road surveyed four different ways 

 to adjoining counties, Whitley, Clay, Bell and Laurel, 

 and we believe we have enough money to build a good 

 pike to each county line. I was asked by the County 

 Judge, as County Agent, to go to Frankfort and repre- 

 sent the taxpayers of the county in trying to get a 

 raised assessment of $16,000 off the county, which the 

 State raised the county. I was successful in getting a 

 little over $8,000 off the taxpayers of the county. 



Peas. — There have been more peas growing in the 

 county this year than ever before. This was the first 

 time farmers ever used inoculation for peas. They knew 

 nothing about it until I became agent for the county, 

 and they are well pleased with the success of the un- 

 dertaking. They can tell to a row where the inoculation 

 went. Twenty-five farmers in the county used it this year. 



Sweet Clover. — ^We never had sweet clover sown in 

 this county until I became agent. There have been fifteen 

 different crops sown this year. All of it was inoculated 

 and is looking well. There has also been sown about 

 twenty crops of crimson clover. All is inoculated and 

 looking good at this time. There has been more rye 

 and oats sown in this county this fall than has been sown 

 in any one year for the past ten years. 



Soudan Grass. — We have a plat of Soudan grass 

 in this county that has been cut three different times 

 this year, and it makes more hay to the acre than any 

 other grass we grow. I believe it to be a good grass for 

 this section. We have a few crops of alfalfa, but not 

 looking well. 



Irish Potatoes. — There have been more Irish pota- 

 toes grown in this county than any one year for several 

 years, also more sweet potatoes. There has been an 

 enormous crop of vegetables grown in this county this 

 year, such as beans, cabbage, tomatoes and other small 

 stuff. 



Fruit. — We have sprayed this year some five or six 

 thousand fruit trees, and find it to be a great thing, as 

 this has been the first year there has been any spraying 

 done to amount to anything. This is a great strawberry 

 section. Doctor Bumsides is a demonstrator on straw- 



