The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-03-23
FARMING TRAIN
COMING THURSDAY
INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF
DEMONSTRATION TRAIN
HERE THURSDAY.


Farmers and all interested are
urged to remember the date of the
den onstration train Thursday, March
"a. the hours at Enterprise being
from 11:40 a. m. to lis p. m. The
following interesting description of
the train is from the La Grande
Star:
The announcement that the offic-
ials of the Oregon Railroad and Nav
igation company are spending up
ward of $4,000 in sending it's dem
onstration train through Eastern Or
egon this week, is causing the farm
ers of this section to sit up and
take notice.
Many of them are about to come
to the conclusion that the railroad
builders and the farming experts of
the state Agricultural College are
not mere sdreamers. when the first
demonstration train arrived i'm Pen
dleton two years ago, it was given
slight attention, but the prediction
IL being freely made that the frost
which attended that occasion will
not be visible this time. Everything
of interest to farmers, great and
small, will be carried and exhibited.
The wheat farmer, the poultryman,
the dairyman and the orchardist will
all find things of interest.
The estimate of $4,000 includes
the cost of operation, earning capac-
ity of equipment, motive power
that will be used, advertising, ad-
vertising expenses, expenses of the
Oregon Agricultural college and Ex-
pertinent Station in sending out 13
experts with the train and in provid-
ing stock and exhibits. Then there
will be many other miscellaneo
eHlenses that are bound to crop up
IN such enterprises.
The chief object of the farming
demonstration movement is to en-
courage the utilization of the one
inlllion or more acres of idle lands
In Eastern Oregon, most of which is
good grain land and lies tributary
to the o. r. & N. system. Under
the present methods of farming, half
of the land every year lies fallow,
and 1t is maintained by the experts
that the true crop producing value
Of the land Is not attained. "a
crop every year, on every acre of
land" Is the slogan of the coun-
t..y and the agricultural college.
The stock car will carry one prize
Jersey cow, one beef cow, two Cots
void sheep, two Shropshire sheep,
four hogs and one Belgian mare.
The stock car will be open at one
end SO that the animals may be driv-
en- out on a flat car that will ad-
join 1t, and the good points ex-
planned by the college experts.
Another 36-foot flat car will carry
mplements, and tools that are now
oeing utilized by the advanced
methods of farming. The train will
also carry three of the new steel
bat gage cars, one of which will con-
taiE the poultry exhibit, incubators
in operation, model poultry house.
coops, etc. Another will contain an
exhibit of trees, shrubs and fruits.
Demonstrations of pruning, grating
and fruit packing will be shown.
In the third car will be the gen.
eral agricultural exhibit and the
dairy exhibit. The dairy exhibit will
include hand and power milking
machines and both cows that are
carried on the train will be milked
daily and the milk will be made in
to butter In the model dairy that
will be carried. There will also be
dairy machinery operated by gaso-
line power. In the agricultural de-
partment will be an exhibit Of soils
showing the capillary attraction and
percolation of moisture, different
mulches, varieties OF grain and
glasses and many other interesting
displays pertaining to agriculture,
The entire train will be electrically
heated and lighted, the power being
supplied by a gas engine.
SIeepers will be provided for the
people accompanying the train and
the personnel will number about 32
In all. The train in its tour will
cover 1900 miles In all.