The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-02-12
The AGRICULTURAL TRAIN
r,U NEWS RECEIVES MORE IN
FORMATION ABOUT 1T.
,r,,o Dates and Hours of Its Visit to
Dawson and Other Towns OF This
Section. Its Equipment.

Section. Its Equipment.
rba News has been furnished by
president Soule more information
ahort the Educational Train" sent
ont for tour of the state from the
Georgia College of Agriculture.
AS has already peen stated, the
.roin is due to arrive in Dawson on
thursday, March 5th, at 12;4O p. m.
oror the Central railroad, and will
romain here two hours.
The dates and hours it will arrive
IN other towns of this immediate
lotion are: Smithville, Thursday,
March 9Th, at 1910 a. M; Cuth-
hort Thursday, March 9Th, at 2:55
n M; Fort Gaines, Thursday, March
5tb. at SIS p. m; Georgetown, Fri
dav March 9th, at a. m; Shell
man Friday, March 9Th, at 10 a. M;
Ricbland February %, at 2 p. m.
The train is scheduled to visit $50
towns and cities in which more than
100000 people resided in 1899.
These towns and cities are located
in 125 counties.
Equipment of the Train.
The equipment of the train will be
as follows: A sixty-foot baggage
car will be used for exhibit purposes,
and there will be two passenger
coaches to be used as lecture rooms.
These passenger coaches will each
seat at least sixty persons. The ma
terials used by the speakers will be
arranged in the passenger coaches
so that while the lecturer is talking
he can illustrate to his listeners in
a graphic manner many of the prin-
ciples under discussion and which are
most important to them as planters
and farmers. AS a rule there will
be four lectures given at each point
of half an hours duration. AS the
train is scheduled to make five sta
tiOns each day it can not stop more
than an hour and a half, or at most
two hours, at any given point 1t
is therefore of the utmost Importance
that all who visit it should be at
the depot and waiting it's arrival, as
the train will have to follow sched-
ule for thirty-four consecutive days
which was made up in advance of
its leaving Athens on February 10.
Every one residing in the communi-
ties through which the train passes
is invited to inspect the exhibits and
hear the lectures. If the weather is
fnh G
some of the lecturers will talk from
the platform of the car so that all
many hear
Addresses by Experts.
Among the subjects to be discussed
will be seed selection with the idea
of improving corn and cotton; the
best means of mixing and applying
fertilizers; the feeding and handling
OF farm live stock; the care of or
chards, gardens and truck patches;
insects and fungi attacking cotton
and other farm crops and means of
combating them; the value and char
acter of agricultural education bet
ter methods of handling and utilizing
cotton seed and cotton seed by-prOd-
ucts, and the management of farm
TO answer any questions relating to
these subjects which may be pro-
pounded to them
Nature and Character of Exhibits.
In the baggage car the exhibits will
consist of a collection of photographs
showing tne work of the State Col
leSe OF Agriculture; courses of study
provided in the State College of Ag-
1cuIture and an outline of a farm
CT reading course; sources of fer
IIIzlng materials; methods of mixing
lertlllzers: fertilizer formulas for the
principal farm crops; the grades and
standards of short and long staple
Golton; practical methods of select
Tug corn and cotton for improve
meht; the best varieties of cotton to
grow; cotton seed and the by-prod-
ucts obtained from the same; the
pest varieties of corn adapted for
growth in the state; spraying outfits
Ior orchards and gardens; methods
Vi cutting and laying plants. dis
eases OF fruit trees and means of con-
ironing the same, together with facts
10 be observed in pruning. There
VIII also be display of field and gar
Sen seeds. The equipment needed
aoT small farm dairy, rations suit
oDle for various classes of live stock
anu samples of forage crops adapted
~ ~ the state will also be shown.
mere will be a display of farm i'm
dement's and machinery, and maps
%nu charts showing important facts
mhlch have been discovered through
ene researches of the agricultural
colleges.