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A Boys' Com Show was held last year, and this 

 developed into a Woodford County Corn, Tobacco and 

 Live Stock Show. This show had five hundred and eight 

 entries in competition, and a number of exhibits not in 

 competition. There were over 2,500 people visiting this 

 show, which was held in and around the court house. 



Some work has been done with diseases of clover 

 and alfalfa ia the county. 



Assistance was rendered in organization of farm- 

 ers to eradicate foot-and-mouth disease. A Commercial 

 Club was organized at Midway, and we are now working 

 on an organization to promote the welfare of the county 

 at large. This is practically complete. 



We succeeded in getting two County Agents in the 

 Home Demonstration work in the county; however, this 

 has, in a measure, failed, and the last agent was trans- 

 ferred to another county. Yet, out of this work has 

 grown the Woman's Home Welfare Association, which 

 provides for a local teacher in each of seventeen dis- 

 tricts, and these have two hundred and more girls en- 

 rolled who are being taught cooking and sewing. 



Work has been done to organize farmers and hold 

 them together in co-operation with the Farmers' Educa- 

 tional and Co-operative Union in the county, while no 

 soliciting has been done for that organization. 



This county sent seven delegates on the trip to west- 

 em Kentucky to visit the farms and study the conditions 

 in that part of the State. 



Work has been begun in a small way to standardize 

 our live stock breeding and now several farmers are 

 breeding the same breeds of live stock with the idea of 

 selling together in a community sale. We hope to en- 

 large on this very materially. 



Several farms where so many hogs had been lost 

 through hog cholera that the owners had given up hopes 

 of ever succeeding with them again, have been taken as 

 hog cholera demonstrations, where, by the use of sani- 

 tation, good feed, careful watching, and the use of serum 

 when necessary, raising hogs has proven to be practical 

 as well as profitable for the past year. 



0. F. Floyd, 

 County Agent. 



