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     Under the provisions of the Smith-Lever bill, with which
you are familiar, the University, in connection with the
government of the United States, is carrying on a very large
and varied Extension Work throughout Kentucky. We are really
conducting an out-of-doors University where the lecture halls
and laboratories and the class rooms are the farms, the corn
fieldsand tobacco patches. Here the farming part of the
community is given very valuable lessons in scientific
agriculture. There are nor in the field in Extension Work
forty-three (43) men dounty agents and twenty-six (26) women
county agents, making a total of sixty-nine (69) extension
workers, not including specialists of the college and de-
monstration specialists. The University is spending, this
session, the sum of $171,623.30, and next year this will be
increased very considerably by the additions authorized by
the government under the Smith-Lever bill, which goes on
increasing each year, until 1923, when Kentucky's part will
be $142,300 and the total budget for this work will be in
the neighborhood of a quarter of a million dollars. All of
this money is spent through the University and can only be
used for actual demonstration work in the field. It is our
intention and hone, within a very few years, to have a man
county agent and a womR.n county agent in each county of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky, and I see no reason to doubt that
by pushing this great work, the Commonwealth of Kentucky will
soon be agriculturally one of the greatest states in the Union.

     It would be impossible for me to set forth, in my report,
the details of the work of the Extension Department. During
the past suimer, there were held throughout the State by
this department, a large number of farmers' chautauquas,
farmers' institutes and educational institutes with an
agricultural bearing. These were attended in large numbers
by the farmers of the neighborhood. Learned lectures were
delivered by specialists from the college and elsewhere on
all the vital subjects in which farmers are interested.
These included, of course, soil fertility; rotation of crops;
animal husbandry; poultry raising; hog cholera, its prevention
and cure; home economics; rural credits and co-operative
marketing. I attended a large number of these in person and
delivered such adresses as I thought appropriate to the occasion
and best for arousing enthusiasm in everything which makes for
the uplift of the rural community. Upon the whole, I think
these meetings resulted in much good and will grow in pop-
ularity in the future.

     During the year there were 954 boys in Pig Clubs, and
these clubs were held in forty counties of the state. 747
of these boys bought and raised a pure bred pig at a net
profit of twelve dollars ($12.00) per pig. Had each pupil
of school age raised a pig, their profits would have more
than Maintained the nublic schools of Kentucky. Through the
work of the agents in the Extension Department, bankers,
and farmers and business men contributed, as prizes, six
thousand dollars ($6,000). 656 boys and girls in Poultry
Clubs raised, last year, ten thousand standard bred chickens,
worth from one dollar to one dollar and' fifty cents each,
and this was done in the poorer sections of the State and not