400 Twenty-First Biennial Eepoet ^' 



with an average attendance of forty-five people. About 

 April the 15th hog cholera began its devastating work, 

 and some of these meetings were called for the purpose 

 of devising some plan whereby we could eradicate this 

 dreaded disease. At ten such meetings we had a veteri- 

 narian from the State Experiment Station to give us in- 

 formation on the subject. On April 19th I began my 

 work of vaccinating in infected and suspicious herds. 

 To date I have vaccinated 66 herds, with a total number 

 of 400 hogs, and up until last week I had not lost a hog 

 from cholera that was well at the time of vaccination. 

 Last week three died that were vaccinated more than 

 four months ago, June 15th, the immunization having 

 expired. 



At a local club meeting a few nights ago the farmers 

 decided to ship a co-operative carload of potatoes. I 

 will leave today for the mining camps at Pineville to 

 sell the potatoes. 



About midsummer we decided that strawberries 

 would be a profitable crop for us, as the rate of $800 

 per acre had been realized in the county; but after a 

 few weeks' work, we found that the people were not 

 ready for the kind of co-operation that would be nec- 

 essary to successfully grow and market strawberries. 

 Now we have a movement on foot to bring into the 

 county a carload of pure-bred Shorthorn cattle, to be 

 used for breeding purposes, and thereby stock up the 

 county with a better grade of cattle. 



The county had its first Chautauqua and also its 

 first school fair this year. The Chautauqua was a fair 

 success, even though not attended by more than one 

 hundred and fifty people daily. The school fair was a 

 great success. The entries numbered 65, being com- 

 posed of all the common farm and garden products, dis- 

 plays of cooking and sewing, canned goods, fancy work, 

 carpenter work, maps and written work. About $100 

 was given in prizes partly by the Board of Education 

 and partly by the business people of the town. The 

 worth of a dollar or more was given to each pupil win- 

 ning a prize, and twenty-five dollars was offered for the 

 school winning the greatest number of individual prizes. 

 It was said by business men and traveling men that the 

 exhibits excelled any that they had ever seen at any 



