Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-06-17
THE farmers TRAIN SENATOR DOLLIVER
WILL VISIT CHEHALIS COUNTY
NEXT THURSDAY.
State Farming and Dairy Experts on
r1ammOfh Demonstration Train
will Be In Aberdeen Next Thurs
day-Evening. Carries Cattle and
Gives Milking Exhibitions.

PULLMAN, June 16-Better farm
ing, better orcharding how to i'm
prove the dairy farm and increase
the excellence of dairy products, the
tillage of soils, and improvement of
farm life in general will be the sub
iects of lectures given by the staff
lecturers accompany the mammoth
demonstration train which from June
21st to June 26, inclusive, will run
on the lines of the Northern Paci-
fic in Western Washington.
This train, the most complete OF
the kind that has ever been run by
the state college and cooperating
TRANSFORMATION companies will reach
Aberdeen on June oath at 6:43 in
the evening, and will ma-e a stop
of from an hour to two hours, de-
pending upon the variety of local
topics presented for discussion.
With the train will be Professor
r. w. Thatcher, director OF the
Washington State Experiment Sta
ton; Professor w. Thornber, hor-
ticulturist of the state college; Pro-
fessor I. p. Whitney, dairy expert
of the college; o. M. Olson assis-
tant superintendent of farmers In
stitutes; C. w. Lawrence, superin-
tendent of the Puyallup station; H..
l. Blanchard, poultryman of the Puy-
I 1rl. c
visor of demonstration farms at the
state college.
The first and biggest car OF the
train is one of the immense auto
bile" kind with a door in the end
such as will permit stock to led lii
and out. In this car will be from SIX
TO ten dairy cows of different types
There will be Ayrshires and H'i-
stems, Jerseys, beef cows and sew
eral good blooded dairy animals ot
inferior types to be shown in con-
trast with the others.
The end of the car next to the
livestock car will be fenced in with
woven wire, and used for a lecture
platform for the dairy work. Spray
ing outfits, both hand and power,
spraying will be on the other end
and trees for demonstrations OF
spraying will be on the other END
of the car. Following this car will
be one in which will be installed
great variety of up-to-date dairy ap-
pliances. One of the exhibition fea-
lures will be milking machine.
This train will stop at six cities
and towns of Chehalis county,
namely:
Oakville, Porter, Elma. Satsop'
Montesano and Aberdeen.
This is the third year that the
state college has made the practice
of conducting farm demonstration
trains over the lines of leading
TRANSPORTATION companies of the state
There was some doubt in the minds
of members of the staff as to how sue
cessful this rather unique manner OF
giving instruction to the farming
population would be taken, and the
earlier trains were run in the re-
gion Immediately tributary to Pull
man.
The demand for such instruction
has grown in manner that has
greatly exceeded the expectations OF
the staff and it is certain now that
in the future the farm demonstra-
ton idea," which simply means put
ting part of the state college equip
ment on train and taking it out
in the country for instructional pur-
poses, will be worked out to an even
greater degree Of perfection. Ulti-
mately the college authorities hope
to reach every city or village Of the
state with these travelling colleges
as they are sometimes called.