St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-04-18
The Farming Special.
The Boston 81 NIaine's Special Train
Passes Through this section.


The Boston & Maine's Special Train
Passes Through this section.
The better farming special inaugurated
by the Boston &, Maine and Editor Myrick
ofthe New England Homestead began its
tour ofVermont Monday and completes
its trip on Friday. Between those days it
will have visited every important
station between South Vernon and New
port. The train is in charge Of !. S.
English, one of the genial attaches of
the passenger department of the B. &
NJ, and the New England Homestead is
represented by G. c. Sevey. The train
stayed at Wells River over night and
Monday morning these gentlemen OF the
faculty of the Agricultural College met
the train to be with it through its tour
of Vermont: Prof. J. L. Hills, William
Stuart, L. R. Jones, c. H., Jones. Three
students from the college assist them in
their work: R. E. Vaughn, J. B. Abbott
and c. E. Cutler. With the party as
lecturers are George T. Aitken, SECRETARY
of the Board of Agriculture; Ernest
Hitchcock OF Pittsford, also member Of
the State Board OF Agriculture and the
state forester; T. L. Kinney of South
Hero, ex-president Of the Vermont
Horticultural Society; W. A. Hunter,
secretary of the New England Co.opera-
tive Milk Producers Association.
The train stops about 40 minutes at
place and in each of the three cars devot-
| ed respectively to horticulture, animal
husbandry and feedstuffs and fertilizers a
ten minutes lecture is given, and some
times two lectures. Then the last por.
ton of the time is given up to examining
the exhibits and questioning the lecturers.
1t was the privilege Of the editor of the
! CALIFORNIAN to be with the train Mon
| day when over 1000 interested people
visited the train and listened attentively
to the helpful lectures.
On Tuesday the train was joined by
Dana H. Morse of Randolph of the
Board of Agriculture and Ivan c. Weld
of the New Hampshire Agricultural Col
lege. The newspaper men with the train
included Mr.. Mccoy, representing the
Boston Herald, Mr.. Havener, represent
ing the Boston Journal, and Mr. Butler
OF the New England Homestead.
Lectures were given at the different
stations of an exceedingly practical ma
ture and in many cases they elected
eager questions from the interested au-
dience. All along the line from Ryegate
to LyHdonville the dairy car was the
most eagerly sought for, showing that
the train was in dairy section. Direct
or Hills spoke on fertilizers; Prof. Stuart
upon spraying orchards and potato
vines; Professors Jones upon the analy-
sis of fertilizers and soils; Secretary
( Aitken upon the value of having good
dairy cows and raising sheep; Mr.. Hitch
cock upon the money 10 the timber lot;
Mr.. Kinney of the value to Vermonters
of the apple crop; Mr.. Morse of the po-
tato crop; Mr.. Weld upon the dairy cow.
while Mr.. Hunter urged the farmers not
| to send their milk to the Boston dealer,
but to join the cooperative association
of which he was secretary. We shall
give our readers next week crisp summa-
les of these valuable lectures upon prac.
tical farming.
At Ryegate there were 200 people and
at McIndoes over 800 representative
farmers. The train reached Passumpsic
at the noon hour Monday and about 100
gathered to hear the addresses. Over
800 were present at St. Johnsbury in-the
afternoon and at Lyndonville Tuesday
morning there were over 500 people.
The train proceeded to Newport yester-
day afternoon and works south from
from Wells River today. AS a practical
educator it is great success and hearty
congratulations are due to Editor Ny
rick OF the New England Homestead and
the Boston & Name for inauguarating
such train.