Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-14
LECTURE CARS ON
THE SHORT LINE
Passenger Department Arranges
For Special Carrying Experts
And Equipment.
INSTRUCT HoRTIcULTURISTS.
Methods of Protecting Orchards From
Frost to be Shown-Modcrn
Potato Raising Methods.

Something new in the interests of
the fruit growers and potato rafsers
along the line OF the Oregon Short Line
is about to be undertaken by the rail-
road company. being nothing less than
tho installation OF demonstration or
lectnring train which Will pass
through the counties of northern Utah
and southern Idaho.
The train will be a special. consist
ing of a baggage car, two large COM
posite coaches and a large day coach.
carrying Implements for the demon
Stratlon OF potato culture and orchard
heating, and on these two subjects lee
lures will be delivered by experts Sc
cured for the purpose by the railroad
company.
Illustrated by implements and ma
teriu used in actual work, with the
heating or smudge pots for demonstTa-
tion purposes. Eugene II Grubb. the
orchard expert from Carbondale, Colo.
viii deliver daily lectures on tho subject
OF orchard heating, or the protection of
fruit buds from spring frost by arti-
flcial heat. He viii give the results
Of experiments made by him In years
past in Grand valley Colo, and show
serve their fruit even in the colder Sec
tions of the country.
OTHER EXPERT LECTURERS.
Other lecturers will be JOSEPH L.
Wing, editor OF the Breeders Gazette.
of Chicago, and w s. Clifford.
graduate of the agricultural college
of Wisconsin and director of the agrl-
cultural department of the North Side
@ rafa
The whole subject OF potato culture.
which has assumed such gratifying
proportions throughout northern Utah
and Idaho, will be fully dealt with
by these experts, their talks being
illustrated and amplined by means of
Implements. samples and demonstra-
lions OF methods.
The train Will leave Salt Lake City
on Thursday morning, Jan. 20 Two
stops Will be made in Davis county
where lectures will be delivered, prob
ably at Pennington and Layton
Lectures will be delivered at Ogden,
Brigham City. Garland. Malad. Col
linston. Preston. Richmond. Logan
Hyrum and Trenton, In Utah. when the
train will proceed to Idaho where
stops and lectures will be made at all
the principal points on the Short
Line,
III lotdi toSl VI tht clNNieil tiedht
expert lecturers equipment etc. Is
borne by the passenger department OF
the Oregon Short Line. and has been
arranged by D. Il. Burley. general pas
ssnger agent, The train will be on the
road nearly month, according to plans
of the present itinerary. The lecture
course has been prepared especially for
the benefit of the farmers, ranchcrs and
fruit growers of the country through
which the Short Line passes. and con-
taIns the latest scientific developments
In the way of fruit protection and po-
tato culture known.
LECTURES DAILY.
Lectures VIII be given daily, and for
the most part In the cars attached to
the special train It has been so ar
ranged that one lecture will be carried
on In one of the cars. and another in
the second car and at the conclusion
OF the first talk the lecturers Will ex-
change places and. as a consequence.
those In attendance will secure the
benefit Of the entire double course.
1t Is probable that an evening Will be
devoted to the lectures in the CONNER
cial club In this city before the train
leaves for the north. Secy Game now
has the matter In hand and announce
ment will be made of the time of the
lectures when arrangements have been
completed.