Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-03-03
THE AGRICULTURAL
EXHIBIT TRAIN
Draws a Big Crowd Yester-
day Forenoon.
FARMERS SHOW
GREAT INTEREST

Business Houses and Schools Closed
for Two Hours and Everyone
Attends College on Wheel.
From 10 o'clock until noon Yesterday
the only busy place in town appeared to
bs about the Santa Fs depot. where
farmer, businessman. housewife. school
children and in fact everyone was ap-
parently gathered to view the numerous
exhibits Of the Colorado Agricultural COL
lege demonstration train.
1t is estimated that over one thousand
people visited the train while it was in
this city yesterday and the consensus Of
opinion was that this is the most COM
plets train Of its kind ever organized in
the United States.
The train Is made up Of five cars. four
Of which are filled with exhibits. There
are fifteen professors Of the Colorado
Agricultural College aboard. togsth er
with United States department Of agri-
cultural men, to explain the exhibits and
answer questions regarding the exhibits.
their advantages and to point out the dis
advantages Of some Of the old methods
Of raising and caring for erops.
The first car Of the train contains \
number Of models Of farm implements
which may be manufactured by any
farmer. Literature is given out contain
ing plans and ideas for nearly every
model. The models are in most cases
those manufactured by students At the
State Agricultural College under the
guidancs Of the professors Of that insti-
tuition. There Is literature for nearly
every exhibit on the train. Some Of it
contains plans for the erection Of poul-
try houses and sheds and pens for stock
which if carried out will relieve the
farmer and stock grower to great sx-
tent Of many ailments common to cattle.
sheep. hogs and poultry.
Everything to make q model farm Is
found on exhibition on the train. Even =
twenty acre farm with its divisions OF
gardens and orchards and stock pens is
laid out in miniature in one Of the cars to
demonstrate what may BE- done with in
tsnsive farming on small tract. There
are model silos. hay staeksrs, plows. har-
rows. fumes, bitches. ditch diggsrs. ditch
valves, hen houses, hog houses and pens.
cattle pens and sheds, and . thousand
and one other things which IL every farm
or in the Arkansas Valley carried out on
his own farm would result in the increase
by two or three times the present output
Of the Valley according 70 expert opinion.
1t is without dorbt the most complete sx-
hibition Of farm products. implimsnts and
appliances. from the common every day
plow to the very latest and most seisntif-
ie models Of silos. milk testers and other
scientific apparatus on the farm and
there is no doubt thot it will prove Of
great benefit to the thousands Of farmers
Of the Arkansas Valley on the trip.
The farmers Of the Arkansas Valley
arc as up-to-dats a. farmers Of any sec
ton Of the country and perhaps more so.
but there 10 much on this train, that every
farmer can learn and benefit by.
The demonstration train Is spreading
the gospel Of sanitary and scientific
farming. Like humans. farm stock need
certain sanitary conditions in order to bs
possessed Of health. The professors Of
the Agricultural College are in = way
simply explaining sanitary conditions in
their demonstration Of sheds and houses
for poultry. swine and stock. And the
same may b said Of intensive farming as
they explain Il.
Keep the soil in . healthy condition
according to the crop planted and success
will crown your efforts" say the college
men and then they explain how . certain
amount Of care Of the soil. such ~ the
right amount Of water. rotation Of crops.
cultivation and fertilization will create =
healthy soil.
The Santa Fs railroad Is paying all OF
the expenses Of the train and its twenty
passengers at the best hotels in each
town where meals and lodging is proeur-
cd in the Arkansas Valley. tis an snor-
! nous expense, but the Santa Fs intends
developing the lands adjacent to their
railroad and the people Of Rocky Ford
and the entire valley will reap the results
along with the railroad in the end when
the valley is settled and every acre is
under cultivation.