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of from 2 to 6 hundred pounds per acre. My work with 

 tobacco necessarily brought about such a wide discussion 

 of the fertilizer business that it resulted in a large cur- 

 tailment of the use of complete commercial goods. Any- 

 thing branded tobacco grower sold for all it would bear 

 and the farmers completed the robbery against them- 

 selves by using so little of this that no results could 

 accrue. It was war to the knife and the knife to the 

 hilt, and we won. A number of men used acid phosphate 

 to start the tobacco off with the most remarkable re- 

 sults. 



SotTDAN Gkass. 



Our acreage of this plant is about five. It is be^ng 

 complimented by the farmers as a feed. We in.troduced 

 this as a means of diversification. 



Corn Clubs. 



We have some very good clubs. About 34 members 

 and some very fine promises for results. In this con- 

 nection I got the cashier of Trigg County Farmers Bank 

 to agree to raise one hundred and twenty-five dollars for 

 next year and to become my assistant in the work. We 

 are going to to emphasize this more another year."^everal 

 of the teachers are organizing classes in com' growing 

 at my suggestion and the boys are to become members 

 of clubs in another year. The instruction will cover all 

 phases of club work. 



Faemees' Cltjbs. 



We have a Crop Improvement Association that 

 meets every second Monday and we always have big 

 crowds. We have seven local farmers' clubs all in good 

 shape with regular meetings in most cases. I am try- 

 ing a new plan on my clubs which is working fine. Have 

 them to operate in connection with the school and having 

 a series of "Farm Days" all over the county. Several 

 of these have already been held, but the most noticeable 

 one was held in the southern part of the county, where 

 two districts combined, took all the seats out of the build- 

 ing, one school taking one side of the house for their 



