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farm and school exhibits and the other taking the re- 

 maining half. Seats were arranged under some magni- 

 ficent shade trees. Dinner was served on the ground and 

 enjoyed by at least five hundred people. Games and 

 recitations, etc., took up the forenoon, while the after- 

 noon was given over to speaking and judging. We have 

 done much along this line — all that has ever been done, 

 and the school authorities like it so well that the County 

 Superintendent states in his annual report for this year 

 that my work was remaking the schools. Other meetings 

 of this sort are scheduled for the fall and winter. Here 

 is my idea: Since the business of the people where 

 the rural school is located is farming, the business of 

 the school should not be shipbuilding. I have done more 

 work along that line than I could crowd into a week, so I 

 have lectured all over the county in the rural churches 

 on rural education. What I have sought was an agri- 

 culture that educates, an agricultural education, instead 

 of education in agriculture. 



Feetilizees. 



I have already mentioned this subject in connection 

 with tobacco, but I want to say further that I never 

 found but one man in the county who had any concep- 

 tion as to fertilizer facts. Very little high-priced goods 

 were sold in the county in the spring and at this time 

 only one ton of complete goods has been ordered for 

 fall use that I can locate. It is acid phosphate all the 

 way through now, because this soil responds in a re- 

 markable way to phosphorous. , 



Silos. 



Three concrete silos and two wooden ones are the 

 net results in that line, and with this has come in each 

 instance a better grade of live stock. 



Recapitulation. 



This is a mere sketch. We have had a year of good 

 things, with, of course, its heartaches. I have endeavored 

 to make myself a part of the life of the people. How 

 well I have succeeded is attested by the fact that I was 



