Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-16
Everything win Be Ready
to Start on Time.
Much Interest Is Shown in Many
Sections Of the State.
Many Exhibits Will Be Shown and Valuable
instructions will Be Given.

Orono, Me, April 14.-(SpeciaD.- The
final plans for the University Of Maine
Farming special have now been COM
pleted, and everything will be ready to
start from Orono April %. This move
ment IS receiving the hearty cooper
alton of all agricultural organizations
and all the farming people whose sec
ton is to be visited; and the Oranges
along the line have written to ask if
there is anything they can do to help
the train on to help when it comes.
Letters have been received from three
different sections of the State, asking
what can be done to induce this train to
stop AT their stations.
The exhibits which are to be carried
will be worth coming a great distance
to see. The famous work of the Expert
ment Station along the poultry line
will be well shown. especially because
of the fact that poultry and brooder
houses, one fourth the size of those
used at the University, will be taken
These poultry houses will be fitted out
with roOsts, feeding troughS. and trap
nests in exact breeding productions, and
a brood of small chickens will be car
ried along.
The Experiment Station has also pre-
pared fine exhibit of the gypsy moth
and the brown-tail moth, which every
person in the State should see and be-
come acquainted with in their different
stages of growth.
Along the lines dairy machinery will
be shown in operation. while plants.
growing under the influence of the
various kinds of fertilizers will be eX-
hibited. Seed-tcsting apparatus is to be
shown, and the farmer will be inform
ed as to how he may test his own
seeds
All the exhibits will be in charge of
members of the faculty and some of
the agricultural students. who have
been picked to go; and an able and
efficient explanation of each exhibit
will be given. Meetings will be held
in the evenings, as well as in the day
time; and these meetings promise to
be no less important and interesting
than the others.
In addition to the lectures and en-
plantations that will! be given, about $50
views will be shown. These include
pictures of the University buildings
exterior and Interior field corps, poul-
try. poultry houses, animals kept at the
college, garden crops. the fraternity
houses. exterior and interior, the ath-
lctic teams. and the musical clubs.
The members of the faculty from the
college of Agriculture. who will accom-
parry the train on this trip are as fol-
lows: President Fellows. Prof Woods,
the director of the Experiment Station.
Prof. G. NJ. Gowell. ProfW. d. Hurd.
and Prof. w. NJ Munson. Besides.
several of the leading men Of the State
have signilicd their intention of being
present during a part of this trip
Among these are Hon. A. w. Gilman.
Commissioner of Agriculture; G. S.
Thompson, State Dairy Director: E. F.
Hitchings. State Nursery Inspector,
representing the State Department of
ACriculture: Pres. Adams and Secre-
tary Dyer of the Dairy Association;
Pres. Gilbert and Secretary Knowlton
of the Pathological Society; State
Master Gardner and State Lecturer
Thompson. representing the Grange:
Hon. j. A. Roberts and Hon. c. L.
Jones. trustees of the University OF
Maine: B. Walker McKeen. Ex-secre-
tary of Agriculture; Editor Thorpe and
Business manager French of the maine
Fal lmer:" Editor Mayor of the Turf.
Farm, and Home;" l.. l.. Bateman
Of lewiston: w. d. Bearce.
Maine Press. and representatives of
leading New England agricultural
journals. whose names have not yet
been sent in.