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order to learn the people and their condition, so I could 

 act intelligently with them, and lay plans for fall demon- 

 strations in wheat, crimson clover, red clover and alfalfa 

 and oats. At this time I arranged for some demonstra- 

 tions in~ Sondan grass, for which it was not too late, and 

 had splendid success with it. In my rounds over the 

 county I found that they were needing much more stock 

 than they had to consume the large surplus of com and 

 hay on hand, and also to make more manure than they 

 were making to build up some of these impoverished hills 

 over the county. So I began to urge them to increase 

 their stock, and to buUd silos and utilize more of what 

 they had, and save their manures and enrich their farms, 

 and more cover crops for pasture for their stock ; and at 

 the same time to add to their soil what they had been 

 taking off so long. So I began to talk silos to them, and 

 in order to get them more interested, I decided to try 

 to get them to make a trip over in Warren county, espe- 

 cially to see some silos over there, and I succeeded in 

 getting about thirty-five farmers to go on this trip of 

 about sixty miles, through a rough country to see what 

 our neighbors were doing, and to investigate these silos. 

 All came home delighted with what they had seen, and 

 went to work to build silos. 



We have four new silos built this fall, and will get 

 25 or 30 more next year, as a result of my work with 

 them. I am getting them to take hold of cattle and 

 hogs anew now, and they are getting in new stock and 

 better stock. I found them using a complete fertilizer 

 mostly 2-8-2, 2-6-2, and 1-10-2 goods, for which they were 

 paying from $25.00 to $28.00 per ton, and I have suc- 

 ceeded in getting nearly the whole county to use a 16% 

 acid phosphate that has cost them from $13.00 to $16.00 

 a ton, which has resulted in a great saving for the county, 

 as well as giving them a much higher grade goods, and 

 doing them more good. We are getting them to use more 

 of it than they had been using. 



We have had some hog cholera in a portion of the 

 county, and I have vaccinated for nine different men and 

 saved their well hogs. We have our people largely in- 

 terested also in fall cover crops, and have quite a number 

 over the county who have sown crimson and red clover, 



