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securing the lime in car lots by getting 
several to order at one time. 
There were 636 farmers who selected 
seed corn in the field or early in the sea¬ 
son. 
These farmers purchased 2334 im¬ 
proved farm implements at an average 
cost of $15. 
$9,365 were expended in the purchase 
of pure bred hogs for breeding stock, 
$18,225 for pure bred breeding cattle. 
There were 23 dipping vats built and 
23 silos erected in these counties. 
In carrying out this work the county 
agents traveled 16,728 miles by railroad 
and 50,035 by team and automobile, mak¬ 
ing a total of 66,763 miles traveled by 
them. 
To supervise the work the district ag¬ 
ents traveled a total of 31,624 miles. 
In the canning club work Miss Harris 
reports that there was an enrollment of 
1,153 girls working under 24 different 
county canning club agents. 
The total profit was $4,561.06 from 
the girls’ plots and the average profit, 
over all cost, was $12.22 for each tenth 
acre. 
This year Miss Harris is working in 
21 counties. 
The Bureau of Animal Industry, Wash¬ 
ington, D. €., has placed Dr. Geo. F. 
Babb, hog cholera specialist in Florida for 
this year, to conduct educational and dem¬ 
onstration work to control hog cholera to 
work with county and state agents. Hog 
cholera meetings and demonstrations have 
been completed. The county agents have 
been fully instructed and are now well 
equipped to conduct single and simulta¬ 
neous treatment for the prevention of hog 
cholera. 
The Dairy Division, Bureau Animal In¬ 
dustry, has worked co-operatively with 
the University Extension force the past 
year in an educational campaign for the 
erection of silos and growing of silo crops, 
resulting directly in the erection of eight 
silos with capacity from 75 to 200 tons 
each. 
This encourages improved live stock 
and better facilities for feeding dairy and 
beef cattle. 
I have outlined the operations very 
briefly that we may fully understand from 
what sources this work is being conducted, 
and something of the plans under way. 
For some years, the citrus and truck 
growers have made demand of the Flor¬ 
ida Experiment Station for Demonstra¬ 
tion Work applied to citrus and truck 
crops and as soon as specific demonstra¬ 
tion work was provided for and could be 
conducted along definite organized meth¬ 
ods, plans were arranged that would give 
assistance to citrus and truck growers. 
Not until 1914 was there any demon¬ 
stration work conducted in citrus groves 
in Florida under the direction of the Fed¬ 
eral or State Government, although the 
Experiment Station undertook to carry on 
demonstration principles in a small way 
in Lake County, but for lack of funds 
that could be applied to such work it could 
be conducted only incidentally with other 
work and in an advisory way by the Ex¬ 
periment Station officials. 
CITRUS WORK UNDER WAY 
In May of 1914 the Extension Division 
of the University of Florida undertook to 
