The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-03-11
SEVERAL HUNDRED SAW IT
SCHOOL ON WHEELS WAS VISIT
ED BY A LARGE CROWD.
Three Addresses on Pertinent Farm
Topics Were Heard, and Many
Inspected the Exhibits.


Inspected the Exhibits.
The rolling school, or the educa-
tional train, which was sent out by
the state agricultural college at Ath-
ems, reached Dawson on schedule
time at 1910 o'clock Thursday, and
was greeted by perhaps six or seven
hundred people, among them being
farmers, business and professional
men and women and children. The
public schools were dismissed in or
der that the pupils might visit the
train, and the teachers and many
of the children were present.
The train was in charge of Pro-
lessor A. M. Soule of the State Agri-
cultural College, and the others who
were on it were e. l.. Worsham, state
entomologist; M. p Jarnigan and J.
M. Reade of the agricultural college;
]. J. Conner, president of the State
Agricultural society; T. G. Hudson,
Dunlap, industrial agent of the
Louisville and Nashville and Atlantic
Coast Line railroads and w. T.
Waters, Jr., of the Atlanta Journal.
The visitors left the car on its ar
rival, and the speaking occurred in
the open cir on the east side of the
Central railroad depot.
President Soule was the first
speaker, and after explaining why
the train was touring the state
stressed the importance of agricult-
ural education. He said that in
order to attain the greatest success
as farmer it is just as important
to be educated and trained in the
principles of farming as it is for the
doctor to learn medicine and the law
yer to master law
Mr.. Jarnigin spoke interestingly
on animal husbandry for several
minutes, and pointed out the import
ance of having the best strains of
animals of all kinds in order to Sc
cure the best results at the least cost.
Mr.. Reade, plant pathologist,
spoke on cotton wilt and anthrac-
nose, two diseases that do great dam
age in this section He took the pO-
sition that anthracnose is propagated
by spores that commence at the be-
ginning of the growth and are carried
to the leaf by a fine thread. When
the bolls appear they are reached in
the same way, causing brown crust
to form and kill a part or all of
the boil He said that these spores
need moisture just as the cotton
| plant does, hence they are worse in
wet weather than in dry. He said
| he did not know how they are car
| ried through the winter, but advised
having the bolls that are affected by
the disease picked in a separate sack
and burned. 1t is folly, he said to
plant cotton after cotton on land
where the disease is. Rotate the
! crops and the plant food will not
be exhausted.
One of the baggage cars of the
train was used for the exhibits
and it was well filled with various
products of the Georgia fields,
trast to those that were made
wrong. There was cotton of all
sorts in the stalk the seed and the
lint. There were various elements
LndC go lnIO 1erJlllZerS, Cnere were
wheat, oats and rye, sweet potatoes,
machinery for milking, churning and
working the butter There were
many different machines needed ON
the farm, and there were two or
three men in the cars to explain
each one as the crowds filed through
The train left Dawson at z:15 for
Fort Gaines, it's next stop Friday
it was in Cuthbert Georgetown and
Shellman.