FARM DEMONSTRATION WORK Oiie- J'eature of the Work Worth Over - ?.VHMIOOJM) Per "Year. A New De partment to be Added. ' J The Farmers' Co-operative Demon stration Work carried on by the A. & M. College and our State Department of Agriculture co-operating with the TJ. S. Department of Agriculture la now in operation in 69 Counties ot the State, with a County Agent in charge ot the work in each County. During the present year these men had enrol led "as demonstrations and directly un der their supervision, 5,859 farmers. Farmers are growing for their own benefit and as demonstrations In their respective communities the following crops, where the best known methods in agriculture were applied: li08*3 acres of corn. 3068 acres of cotton-.and 65487 acres of other crops, or a total of 69651 acres. This is an'average of over 1000 acres per county in Demon stration territory. ? During the present year these agents have made 38607 personal visits to Individual farmers. They have talked to 10484 farmers in meet ings attended. They have? probably (ised as many more of which we havoNw reach. Each demonstration plat Influence from five to one hundred farmers. lSarmera often drive from eight to ten miles to study these plats. Aside from thhr, there were enrolled about 10,000 other farmers, some of whom were visited, &Qd all of whom received agriculture bulletins, pamph lets.-etc. In this work there Is not much stress upon the method of giv ing instructions or advice by corres pondence, still several hundred lettfe have been written in reply to request^ for information by farmers. By all of these methods combined, there has probably been reached 500,000 farmers most of them in a practical way. Aside from this the growing of the ordinary summer crops, another valu able feature of the work has been the growing and planting of 50737 acres of winter growing crops. A conservative estimate 6f these are worth at least $10.00 per acre, or a total value ot over $500,000.00. These crops consist of 32510 acres of clover: 4240 acres of grasses, and 12987 acres ot other crops consisting of rye .rape, small grain, During the season County Agents have started definite systems of rota tion of crops with 1081 farmers. These will furnish valuable object lesBons in tlielr respective communities, and will furnish much valuable information to Demonstration Agents to be distrib uted through their counties. These Agents have been Instrumen tal in Introducing Into the State tlw following livestock; 9 stallions: 145 mules: 116 bulls: 177 cows. 363 hogs: -30 sheep, or a total of 1180 animals of improved blood to oe used for breed ing purposes. They have vaccinated "781 for cholera. 90 per cent of the injections seemed to produce immuni ty when used in time. They are now co-operating'with an expert from the I'. S. Department of Agriculture with our State Veterinarian in an effort to control and to eventually eradicate this swine plague. Th?y have Induced the building of 28 silos and have started several creameries with col lecting routes in connection. Much of this work was done in co-operation with our State Dairy Department. It would make a long story to attempt to state all of the work done by these progressive men. Some things accom plished arc the laying out drainage system, and the putting in of 68000 feet of tiling, the terracing of a num ber of farms, the pruning and spray ing of 39ft orclnuulB, the removal of over 20,000 stumps, the starting of several hundred pastures, the stopping of one outbreak of Black-leg, the get ting of one soil survey, etc. Hoys' Cty-n Club Wprk has been car? rled on In 97 Counties with an enroll ment of over 4500 boys, which is 10|) per cent greater than that of last year. Girls' Canning Clubs have been ex tended from 11 to 32 Counties, and from an enrollment of 120 girls, last year to over 1600 this year. They not only cart^Tomatoea, but in one way or anc.ther are saving every kind of ed ible fruit and vegetable on the farm. During the year Poultry Clubs In co operation with the Animal Husbandry Division hare started in 6 Counties with a membership of over 300. Many new and modern houses have been built, and-much good livestock has been purchased by the members of the Clubs. This work is to be greatly en larged during the ensuing year. Ar nmgemenU *re now being made to start Pig Clubs and Beef Clubs, eacli In ten counties to begin with. Tbe Animal Husbandry Division will fur nish expert advicc and help to organ lie, but County Agents will largely be held responsible for the success of tho work In their respective counties. Much Btlmulus to livestock growing 1? expected to result from these efforts. A new Department of the work now to be added 1b that of Home Econo mics. This is for the benefit of,farm women. It ip_to deal with canning, preserving, curing, house-keeping, home-making, sanitary measures, food values, cooking, clothing, health pro blems, marketing, labor saving de vices. womerTa clubs, etc. It Is stated there Is much to be done In the house as on the farm around tho^house. It is equal, or perhaps of greater Impor tance. Every County that can possi bly do so, should produce this work at as early a date as possible. Ipteresting Hunt. Loulsburg, X. C. Dec. 3rd.?On Mon. day night a party of merry lun lovers hastened Into autos, and wagons, and hurried themselves out to Stamps farm where they had the fun of their lives in a big O'Possum hunt. The dogs were eager for the chase, and the merry lads and lassies faces and eyes were gleaming with the fuu and novelty of the situation. Only a short chase ensued before a big fat grinning rellow was Bpled among the bushes. The dogs had him going at a lively pace for some time, when he took refuge in a large ash. Nothing daunted the eager hunters who soon felled the tre$ and his high ness, Mr. Possum was captured, after having put up a magnificent fight. , It was the first hunt for a number lttvthe crowd, and enthusiasm was boiirtay what they really think about the "other girls" Thank God you don't. YOU'ro too young to know thoBe things yet awhile. , 5 You say the girls laugh at your almple, pretty little frocks and at your freckles. Let 'em laugh! That ^hows they ARE the other kind of iirls. Your mother and I met each 4ther long, ago. I loved her enough 1 ? The Regional Reserve banks opened last week and floating around the country somewhere are about four hundred millions of; dollars In emer gency currency?that is, If we have the dope right. That w'ould make about four dollars for every nww, woman and child in the country. All this is in addition to the money that was alleged to be in circulation before the regional banks opened. Now we have been looking forward to the re lease of all this money, expecting that we would, of course get our four dol. lars. But Vthere it it? We said nothing about this last week because we wanted to give William McAdoo and Paul Warburg a chance to get on their feet and attend to the distri bution. But ten or -eleven days have gone by and yet there is nothing doing. This places us In an embarrassing position. We had learned that the Rock Island Railway was to have been , put up for sale at auction and we ex pect to be able to buy It Now look at the hole we are in! Any day they may decide to put up the Railroad and i here we are without our four dollars. 1 We have made up our mind to one thing. If William McAdoo ever run* for president, we will refuse to sup port him and will leavei him flat on his back. Must Pay Fot-Tlie I'aper Judge George Thomas, of Colufc bus, Neb., recently decided that If a man acccpted a paper that is sent him he must pay for it. The decision was rendered in the case brought by the Columbus (Neb). Telegram against a man for $2.35. The Telegram hart been sent to the man's home and he had accepted the paper. When called upon to pay for it he refused and suit was brought. When Judge Thomas heard the evidence he in structed the Jury to bring in a ver dict for the Telegram. Judge Thomas ruled that the old common taw prin ciple that what a man received and used he was bound to pay for applied In tills instance. * Russian War Son?. Up to Miguliuskai come a Russian bold one day, And the streets were paved with gold, so everyone was gay, Singing songs of Sarpukhow and of Kaminlets Podolsk, Till Ivanovitch got excited, and his voice could not be stobst. _ It's a long way to Ivanovo-Vosnesensk It's a long way to go; It's a long way to Ivanovo-Vosnesensk To the sweete'sF girl I know; Good-by Ekaterinodar, Farewell Zhitomeer, It's a long way to Ivanovo-Vosnesensk So I'll stay right here. Just try this over sometime, as a vocal selection its all to the merry. How The Average CottoB Grower May Safely Diversify. Always in crisis llko the present there arises a Multitude who would advise the farmer as to the procedure he must follow to lead him out of tho wilderness. The exhortations of some of these long-range agriculturists are funy, and would bem ore so were it not f6r the bare possibility that some of their '^advice" might bo followed by those who do not know. First of all come thosff who would have cot ton farmers everywhere turn to live stock farming as a plan of salvation; then there are t?e wheat enthusiasts who assert that for cotioU' fai 01^18 Ui buy their flour is all wrong, and that our lands are as good wh*at. lands as h those of the"North; the tofcaceo advo catee who assert that tobkco 1? the" crop tt turn To; the trutk-growlne apostles, who tell us t>f tie wonder! fU proflt8 from cabbage and pota toes. and a final few admonish us to put our faith in the sugar beet, gin seng, and kudzu, would we taste the real Joys of profitable husbandry We hate to say It, but the truth Is. we believe, that these fellows are all wrong. To Use a war-time phase ?!LV>made a UctIcal blu,,der- Llve~ stock farming 1? a splendid business and ^ those already successfully launched In It we tender our con gratulations. Their profits In the near future are sure to be satisfylngly substantial. But-and here's the rub w i 7 cent cotton and scant credit couplod with an Ignorance of livestock farming. In profundity only rivaled by that of some.of his long-range ad visers. it's a little hard to see just how the all-his-life all-cotton farmer is going to make the transition. It takes money to buy pure-bred beef and dairy animals and to build silos and adequate barns, and it takes know ledge that comes from years of study and experience, rather than over night j Year fu and year out the Progress. . farmer has Advocated more live stock ftjr Southern-farmBI>?becau8e"WB are certain that no sectton of the united States today possesses greater advantages than the So^th in the economical production pf\' beef and dairy tfnimals and pork. AAlong with these advantages of farmers who really understand busing than any section of the country. Wfer the aver age cotton farmer, then, we don't see how changing to live-stock Is to be the solution of the problem. Like wise turning to truck oiYuther crops of which we know little- or nothing, either In production or Marketing, is all too likely to result In. failure. What, then, shall we