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in attendance. Competition was keen and the exhibits of farm
products, poultry, stock, needlework and canning far exceeded
the expectations of those in charge. The larger settlement and
church schools thruout the mountain section cooperated and
added much to the success of the festival by their fine dis-
plays.
Western Kentucky Substation. Work at the Western
Kentucky Substation has included the initiation of a number
fm of experimental projects, various general farm activities neces-
gc sary in preparation for additional experiments, the construc-
Ltv tion of several farm buildings and other farm improvements.
VV“€ Fifty-five acres of rough, rolling land on what is known as
the Jacobs tract, were completely grubbed off, terraced, limed
ted and fertilized and sown to rye this fall, on nine acres of which
W soil erosion experiments have been begun.
im On the general crop areas of the substation farm, alfalfa
ECO and sweet clover have done well following applications of
the limestone and phosphate, and pasture mixtures of grasses and
. clovers have started off nicely. Sufficient corn and forage
m _ crops were grown on the farm to feed all the livestock and
poultry for another year.
gal- The first crop from the 1925 planting of raspberries was
Cm harvested this year and a favorable yield of good berries found
a ready local market. Sixty-four small experimental plots of
‘OH’ strawberries were started in the spring of 1926 for the purpose
Ock of studying the fertilizer requirements of strawberries and to
BCH determine the value of different soil improvement crops in the
md strawberry rotation. An initial planting of 320 peach trees
Lt fl and 120 apple trees was made on the Jacobs tract this fall,
these occupying about eight of the forty acres reserved on
and this tract for experimental orchard work.
any New Projects. The following is a list of the new projects ,
undertaken this year:
l at Preparturition intoxication, toxemia of pregnancy or preg-
mial nancy disease of ewes.
mifl A study of the social and economic effect occurring, as a
mls result of the marked lowering of land values, to a group of
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