Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-12-13
FARM COLLEGE TRAIN WILL
TOUR ALL GEORGIA AGAIN
Better Farming Crusade Will
Be Carried to Farmers BY
State Agricultural College

The agricultural train of the State Col
lege of Agriculture will run again
through Georgia
Some time about February l. 1911. less
than two months from now, IT will start
out on it's way from Athens. And for o
days it will be traversing the state, pene-
trating every corner, stopping at every
important point, carrying its gospel OF
scientific farming to every farmer who
cares to come and hear it.
In February and March of 1908 similar
train operated by the State College OF
Agriculture, with the courteous co-opera-
ton of the railroads, was run through
Georgia, taking five weeks in its tour.
That college on Wheels" as it grew to
be called by adoption of the western
term, was something entirely new IN
Georgia. In other parts of the country
notably the west now so rich with grain
and corn, other agricultural trains hao
already done their work.
But the Georgia train was new, ano
for the very novelty of the thing farm
ers fiocked from far and near to the stop
ping points, to listen for half an hour tc
a lecture or two, and spend another hall
ali hour or so inspecting the exhibits
crowded into a baggage car. They came
for novelty, but they went away impress
ed with the knowledge that there were
some things about farming that they had
yet to learn. They learned few of those
things, specifically, while the train
stopped among them. But more than al
else, they were left with thirst for
more knowledge.
That was the beginning of a new era in
Georgia Since the 1908 agricultural train
went it's way the eyes of Georgia farm
ers have been turned to the State Col
lege of Agriculture, an adjunct of the
State university at Athens. They have
gone there. themselves, or sent their sons
there, to find out things that they needed
to know in their business of farming. And
the benefits of the college have been CIV
en- lavishly to them.
Now the second college on wheels" is
to go around, and where the first plough
ed the ground it is to plant the seed of
knowledge.
The operation of the 1911 agricultural
train was tacitly agreed among the au-
thorities of the State College of Agricul-
ture and other state officials, some weeks
ago. Now 1t is positively announced. and
only the details are incomplete.
Dr. Andrew NJ Soule. president of the
State Agricultural college, will be in
charge of the 1911 train as he was in
he became the head of the college. With
him will be a corps of competent lectur-
ers from the college and from the state
government.
The itinerary of the train is now being
arranged, and soon the stopping points
ana dates and hours will be announced.
The train will run for so days, Is days
longer than the 1908 train. and will make
longer stops and cover more territory
than that train. The train will be bigger,
and the exhibits will be larger and more
diversified than those of 1908. Seven
coaches will be used-one for a farm ma
shinery exhibit, one for live stock exhibit,
two for agricultural exhibits. two for lee
lures and one Pullman for the accommo-
dalton of the lecturing party. The rail-
roads of the state have already signified
their cordial willingness to haul the train
over their rails, and the state railroad
commission has already indicated it's ap-
prevail OF the arrangement.