Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-09-04
DEMONSTRATION TRAINS.
Valley Farming-Dr. Jas. Withy'
c0mbe in Charge.

More elaborate than any slmlF
lar train everrun over a railroad
in the Pacific Northwest will be
the farming demonstration train
to be operated through the Will
annette Valley by the Southern
Pacific company in October, just
announced by r. B. Miller, gen
eral freight agent for the Harrl-
man lines in this territory. The.
train will be run under the di
rection of the Oregon Agriculs,
tural College, and DR.. James.
Withycombe, director of the Ore
gon Experiment Station, viii be:
in charge. He will have q NUM-
Der of assistants, and lectures
and demonstrations viii be giV-.
en- that are calculated to i'm prove
farming conditions and meth>
ods.4 tnA e
A striking feature Of the train
will be number Of dairy COWS
that will be carried inszspecial
freight ears housed in patent
stalls. These animals will be
high-class dairy cows and they
will be milked at variousstations.
by the compressed air milking:
machine that will be denonstrat-
ed to the farmers. The milk
will be run through separators
carried on the train and various
processes of daiaying will be-
shown.
Modern Dairying Methods.
The cows will show the farm
ers the best types Of dairy cattle
and their proper care viii be inn
pressed upon the farmers bysob-
feet lessons. The most modern
and successful dairying methods
will also be taught by what is
believed to be the most foreeful4
way, that of actual demonstra-
ton.
There will be q number of
cars given ever to- exi1ibit of
Various kinds that will be high
sly interesting to the farmers.
Modern agricultural implements
of every sort will occupy one car.
An exhibit Of grains and grasses
will be carried. Materials ! for
horticultural instruction, show
ing the best methods of budding,
grating, pruning, spraying and
packing fruit, will be carried,
special series of object Lessons
will be given to show the farm
ers how to pack fruit CONNER
cially.
Demonstrators with the train
will show the farmers how to
make milk tests for butter fat
and how to carry on innumera-
BILE modern scientific processes.
The tlain will be run as spec
ial and will stopat the principal
places in the Willamette Valley.
The complete itinerary has not
yet been made up. A number
Of passenger cars will be includ-
ed in the train to carry DR..
Withycombe and his staff of as
sistants as wellas railroad officials
who will accompany the train.
Demonstrate Scientific Methods.
"The demonstration train
has been undertaken for
the purpose of educating and
assisting the farmers, so far as
it is possible to do so, in better
and more scientific methods of
farming" said Mr.. Miller. "The
railroad company also hopes to
stimulate the production of dairy,
horticultural, livestock and other
diversified farm products, of
which the William cite Valley
does not now produce in suffic-
lent quantities to supply the
home demand.
This is evidenced by the
fact that butter, eggs and poul-
try are shipped here from the
East in carloads. Fresh cream
is being shipped by express in
considerable equantities from Cal
ifornia to Portland and from.
Utah to Washington points,
which could just as well he sup
piled from this state. Live hogs
are brought here from Nebrask
in train loads. Many carload
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