Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-07-02
WEST s1DERs INTERESTED
Farm Demonstration Trains in
Western Washington are
Doing a Grand Work


Iington where the farm demonstra.
ton trains are being run over the
! Northern Pacific and Great North
ern railroads under the direction
of Professor r. w. Thatcher. di.
rector of the experiment station at
Washington State College, that the
meetings are successful, and well
attended and much good is being
done. A special dispatch from
Tacoma tells Of the work as fol
lows:
TACOMA, Wash, June 30
Starting from Vancouver, Wash.
on June q and ending at Enum-
claw on the 25th, the state college
farm demonstration train reached
% cities and towns in western
Washington, the average attend
ance at each stop being 2SS per-
sons. In Clarke county two stops
were made, with an attendance of
625; in Cowlitz county there were
four stops, the attendance being
1130; in Lewis county six stops
attendance 2030; Pacific county
three stops, attendance 500; Che
halls six stops, attendance 1915;
Thurston county one stop, attend
anee 500; Pierce county one stop,
attendance 500; King county one
stop, attendance 600: total 1900
persons.
June 26 the train will stop at
Kent and Auburn, in King, and
Sumner and Fuyallup in Fierce
county. On Monday, the 28th,
the train was transferred from
the Northern Pacific to the Great
Northern for a four days tour,
during which stops were made at
Richmond, Edmonds, Snohomish.
Monroe, Everett, Marysville, Stan
wood, Mount Vernon, Sedro- Wool
ley, Anacortes, Fidalgo, North
Avon, Burlington, Bow, Belling-
ham, Blaine, Custer and Ferndale.
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During the run over the North
ern Pacific the leading topics of
lectures and demonstrations re-
lated to dairying and horticulture.
In their lectures on dairy subjects
Messrs. l. P. Whitney and H. L.
Blanchard demonstrated the use
of milking machine, different
kinds of bottling apparatus, three
styles of milk coolers, steel bal
ances for weighing milk when Sc
curing the individual records for
cows, four styles of Babcock test
ers for obtaining the per cent of
butter fat, assortments of testing
glassware, thermometers, surgical
apparatus for dairy farmers, a
three h. p. vertical boiler for
generating steam required in an
up-to-date dairy, two cream separ-
ators, swinging stanchions, stir
ring rods, fiber brushes for clean
ing the cows, different kinds of
sanitary milk buckets, delivery
cans, strainers, churns, butter
workers, dairy aprons, shoes for
use in the dairy yards, photo
graphs of famous dairy cows and
dehorning outfits.
The use of this large variety of
dairy apparatus, all of which was
carried on the train, was explained
for use in both large and small
diaries.
Different MOBILES
Fully as complete as the dairy
material was the assortment Of
horticultural appliances carried
with the train. In their lectures
Professor w. S. Thornber, w. II.
Lawrence and r. w. Thatcher had
at their disposal for demonstra-
ton and explanation vermorel,
Bordeaux, Cyclone and other
spraying nozzles For general use
in western Washington they adj
vised the use of the BordeauX noz-
zle.
Other horticultural appliances
exhibited and explained were new
quick-pack distributors to aid in
sorting fruit in packing houses,
different kinds of apple box hold
ers to use for holding apple boxes
while being packed, mailing press
es for pressing the covers down
and holding while mailing is done,
various kinds of tree protectors to
prevent the trees from being bark
ed by cultivation, an electric frost
alarm clock which is used to awak-
en- orchardists at night when the
temperature in the orchards falls
below the danger point for bios
SONS or young fruit, two types of
oil orchard heaters for use in such
emergencies and a coal orchard