The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1911-10-19
Commissioner Of Agriculture
T.. F. Peck, Devises
Great Plan.
AT NEWPORT OCTOBER Is
Agricultural Train Under Direct
ion of State Department of Az
riculture and the Land and In
dustrial Department of the
Southern Railway, Began Tour
of State Monday.

Southern Railway, Began Tour
of State Monday.
The agricultural Tain. to be run
through East Tennessee under the di-
rection of the Tennessee state depart
ment of agriculture, the Tennessee
board of health, the United States de-
partment of agriculture and the land
and industrial ldepartmentxiof the
Southern railway, started Monday.
The train,wasmade .up at Knoxville
Sunday andi reached Bristol Sunday
night, manned by twenty-one experts,
representing the Tennessee agrical--
tural Department. the United States de-
partment of agriculture, and the land
and industrial department of the
Southern railway, and the University
of Tennessee.
The first meeting was held at
Blountville Monday and was largely
attended by farmers from all over Sui
livan county, showing the deep in
terest in the movement for more in
tensive farming and more modem
farm methods. There are exhibits Of
many kinds, including live stocx, pro-
ducts of the field and garden, poultry,
dairy machinery and farming machin- Z
cry.
Commissioner of Agriculture T. II. \
Peck, of Tennessee, represents the state /
department of agriculture and Ii ac-s
by several experts. DR.. y.
A. Albright, represents the state de-
partment of health, while the govern
ment is represented by several ex-
perts assigned to the work by Secre-
tary James Wilson. r. B. Thackson
and r.. G. Hanson, Jr., represent the
Southern railway. Congressman Sam
r. Sells will make the trip through
the twelve counties of his district.
Congressman r. w. Austin will join
the party and make the trip through
the second district. The trip ends at
Tyner, near Chattanooga, November
IL.
Assistant Commissioner of Agricul-
ture A. III. Upton, of Elizabethton,
who has done much toward working
out the details of the trip and adyer-
tisingi it. is taking part. The speakers
are the best experts in their various
lines in the country and among the
subjects discussed by the various ex-'
perts are agriculture in general, fruit
growing, poultry culture, bee culture,
cattle and dairy work, trucking and
methods of improving land. Methods
of planting and cultivating willsb
given much attention by the experts
! The train will be made up of three
lecture coaches, three exhibit coaches
and one fiat car for live stock to. be-
furnished by the, Southern Railway,
and one Arms Palace Stock Car to. he
arranged for by the Tennessee Depart
ment Of Agriculture. State Agricul-
tural Commissioner T. F. Peck, DR.. c.
M. Morgan, Dairy Agent Of the South
ern Railway, and well known experts
connected with the State and Unversi-
ty will accompany the train and will
conduct lectures and demonstrations
in each of the thirty-three points,
which will be covered in twenty-threc
working days. n
The. lecturers will attempt to. a.
quaint the farmers with the latest
scientific investigations relating to Tho
soil, the plants and the farm animals,
and to advise them how to increase
crop yields and at the same time by a
rational system of crop rotation to-
leave the soil year after year when
crops are removed. The subjects Of edr-
ucation and health wiz also be treated.
The Southern Railway is bearing
the whole expense of the campaign in
pursuance of. its policy to materially
assist in the development Of the teI-
ritury it serves.
The train will arrive in Newport,
October 25.