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A rest room has been establislied by the civic league 

 for farm women. This is expected some time to grow 

 into the establishment of a farmers' club house. 



The membership in the Boys' Com Club and the 

 Boys' Pig Club has been about 50 each this year. 

 At the State Fair one of the Pig Club members won 

 first prize for judging pigs. Two members fed pigs so 

 as to gain over a pound a day. About 75 members are 

 enrolled for the 1916 Com Clubs. They are going in for 

 soil improvement as well as for yield. 



About a half dozen men selected seed com in the 

 field last year. Eesults are reported better in all cases. 

 One ear to row test plot was planted this year. This 

 season dozens of men are selecting their seed in the field. 

 The results of the ear to row test plot planted this sea- 

 son cannot be determined yet, but indications are so 

 strong for widely different results that I am planning to 

 have several others started in other parts of the county 

 next year. 



A plot of Kentucky blue grass has been seeded suc- 

 cessfully on the campus of Cumberland College; with 

 acid phosphate and ground limestone the grass seems 

 to be as much naturalized as in the blue grass region. 



Appropriation of $250,000 has been voted for good 

 roads. I am trying to introduce the split log drag as a 

 means of improving the roads which cannot be piked. 

 Little progress has been made so far. 



I am finding every day plots of crimson clover do- 

 ing well where I did not know of any demonstration 

 work. The acreage of crimson clover for 1915, will be 

 ten times that of 1914, I think. 



I am introducing vetch this season. Have about a 

 dozen plots started. More wheat and rye are being 

 sown in spite of the. high prices of seed. 



Sweet clover and alfalfa are being tried out at my 

 suggestion. No uniformity seems to hold in the re- 

 sults. In some sections of the county both are doing 

 well, in others only medium to poor. One plot of alfalfa 

 is said by visitors from Kansas and Oklahoma to be 

 equal to the best in those states. One plot of sweet 

 clover, likewise, is most excellent. Other plots of alfalfa 

 are merely existing, while most of the sweet clover is 



