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state an additional $6,491 for the fiscal 
year beginning July 1, 1915; $11,898 for 
fiscal year beginning July 1, 1916; and 
$5,000 additional for each succeeding year 
until a total of $44,345 annually is reach¬ 
ed; with the provision that the state must 
appropriate an equal amount for the same 
period; that is, the Florida legislature 
must also appropriate not less than $6,491 
for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1915 ; 
$11,898 for 1916; $16,898 for 1917; and 
increase this amount each year until this 
appropriation should amount to $44,345 in 
order to get this increase. These appro¬ 
priations will give for Farm Demonstra¬ 
tion and Home Economics Work in Flor¬ 
ida a total of $23,982 for next year, be- 
ginning- July i, 1915; $33,796 for 1916; 
$43,796 for 1917; and this amount will 
then increase $10,000 annually until 1922, 
when the total appropriation from the 
Federal and State sources will be $98,690 
to be applied to Farm Demonstration and 
Home Economics Work. 
At the present time each of the thirty- 
eight counties in Florida having the Dem¬ 
onstration agents receives an appropria¬ 
tion oif $675 from Federal and 'State 
funds. The minimum appropriation from 
each county must be not less than $175, 
making a total of $850, which is the small- 
esDsalary paid to any demonstration agent 
in the state. But as $850 is not sufficient 
to induce well-trained successful business 
men to enter the field or to induce 
younger students to prepare themselves 
for the work, it has been urged that the 
appropriations from the counties be lar¬ 
ger, which is the case in most of the 
southern counties. The county demon¬ 
stration agents’ salaries in the southern 
counties range from $850 to $2,400 an¬ 
nually. 
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For conducting Demonstration Work 
in Florida, the Board of Control of the 
University of Florida has entered into a 
co-operative agreement with the Secre¬ 
tary Houston of the United States De¬ 
partment of Agriculture. 
Mr. Bradford Knapp, Special Agent, 
Farmers' Co-operative Demonstration 
Work, and Prof. P. H. Rolfs, Director of 
Extension Work of the University of 
Florida, are entrusted with carrying out 
the plans of the work. 
Prof. C. K. McOuarrie, State Agent, 
has general supervision of the Demonstra¬ 
tion Work, Boys’ Corn Clubs and Girls' 
Canning Clubs. 
Miss A. E. Harris is assistant state 
agent, Canning Club Work; Prof. E. S. 
Pace is district agent for North and West 
Florida and my part is district agent, East 
and South Florida. 
BRIEF STATEMENT OF WORK ACCOM¬ 
PLISHED 
The following is a brief condensed re¬ 
port of the work from January 1 to De¬ 
cember 31, 1914. 
There were 1929 demonstrations with 
corn, cotton, oats, legumes and citrus 
fruits on 7,725 acres. These are definite 
planned demonstrations where the farmer 
or demonstrator carried out the work ac¬ 
cording to detailed instruction from the 
county agent. 
In addition to this, the county agents 
had these farmers establish 74 pastures, 
mainly for hogs and cattle, plan and carry 
out 162 rotations for soil improvement 
and pasture crops, use lime on 773 acres, 
