The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-10-03

Left Today For Fulton and Returns
Via Cairo Division of the
Illinois Central.
IT ENDS IT'S TOUR TOMORROW.

The alfalfa and corn special which
has been making a tour of the state
In the interest of the farmers, arriv
ed In Paducah last night at G:30
O'Clock, but no demonstration was
] made here and the train remained
sidetracked and quiet until this morn
ing at 7.45 when It left for Fulton
10 make tour of the western end
OF the state coming around via East
Cairo and the Cairo extension TO Pa
ducah AID thcn the central portion
OF the state again.
The train Is composed of one pri-
vate car. two coaches and one bag
gage car. The train IS in charge
OF Hubert Vreeland, commissioner
OF agriculture OF the state, and he
has with him his assistant. Mr.. n.
c. Crenshaw. The speakers or lect-
urers are Messrs. Joseph and Willis
Wing, of Mechanicsburg. o., and
Prof. SherfIius, of the experimental
station of Kentucky The former
two speak on alfalfa and the latter
on corn.
4 The train started from Louisville
about o'clock yesterday morning.
and made stops at Vine Grove, Leitch
field, Beaver Dam, Rockport, Green
VILE. Dawson. Princeton. Kuttawa
and Calvert City. There was on an
average of 1875 farmers to meet the
train and the lectures were delivered
In the coaches
The train will make stops today at
Mayfield and Fulton and several sta
lions between the two cities and will
then go to Wickliffe and the towns
on the Fulton and Cairo district of
the I. c. coming back via the Cairo
extension. The only stop in Nc
Cracker county will be made at Max
on's Mill, this afternoon, where
lecture will be delivered. The train
will then go straight through to Ma
rion and from there TO Henderson aud
them to Louisville, ending its tour
Wednesday.
There seemed to be little interest
taken here in the coming of the train
and no one was out 10 meet It.. Those
aboard spent very quiet night and
what little they saw of Paducah were
highly pleased with the town.
The trim last week was a run from
Cloverport to Louisville over the /.
Henderson route The entire tou-
will end Wednesday night, after the
trip to Paducah and Intermediate
points and other stations In the
Purchase section. Although al the
beginning of the trip il was es.imat-
ed that an average attendance o.
sixty persons would afford success
full tour, the average has reached
nearly so and at times zoe and 300
people have heard the lectures.
These have gathered from all
points within five and ten miles OF
the scheduled stops of the train.
and on three occasions extra stops
had to be made in the schedule in
order TO accommodate the demands
made upon the commissioner. These
stops we're at Horse Cave, Ekron
and Custom, and more than 100
farmers heard the lectures at each
point.
Complete satisfaction has been ex-
pressed by the farmers at all points
in the instruction given them, and
although at times they have begged
for additional information when the
schedule time had expired. they were
forced TO be satisfied with promises
of literature upon the subjects con-
corning which they wished informa-
ton. Prof. Holden, the corn expert.
said that the trip was far more sue
cessful than he had expected.
--Clyde Goodwin pitched a y