Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-02-10

ers. The operation of the train will be
\ in the hands of the railway authorities
each in turn. as their respective tracks
are reached. The schedule has already
been laid out to carry the train through
every part Of Georgia and 20 practically
all of the states principal cities anu
towns.
In one OF the baggage coaches is a
miniature OF the big tank. the silo, Quilt
and in use at the college. Next TO this
all laid in miniature, is a model farm,
with fields and orchard and pastures and
houses and trees and garden, all com
plete, even to the little animals in the
pastures and the pigs in the barnyard-
/ Around about are hung enlarged photo
graphs of fine horses and cattle. Cur
riculum charts. showing the courses Of
study at the college. are here, too. Get
ready for the boil weevil by establish
ing rotation, and raise larger crops
on a smaller area" is a text in big let
tiers over a display Of printed arguments
and details under glass. Next is to be
seen a model Of the big barn at the
state college.
DAIRY EXHIBIT.
Then comes the dairy exhibit. includ-
ing practically everything-churns,
cream separators, patent pals, stools
and alI-that goes with a dairy Of today.
I Opposite this are some prize stalks
I of cotton, perfect in every detail. Then
is seen a diagram showing the products
obtainable from cotton seed. and en-
/ phasizing the wonder which the present
day use Of this former waste has stir
red in the minds of economists. Next
! is a fertilizer chart, showing expert
ments with cotton. Beyond this is cot
ton in a glass case, on the stalk, with
I healthy and unhealthy plants distin-
guished. Opposite these, behind glass,
/ Is a farmers reading course, consisting
OF the bSst recognized textbooks on va
rious subJects-soil and soil fertility;
forage crops, physics of agriculture, an
imal husbandry, dairy and dairy prod
ucts, gardening and horticulture. Next,
under glass. is an exhibit OF fertilizer
values. Then come a collection of fer
tilizer formulate.
These are but the salient details;
cought at a cursory glance, in a coach
where every item will be seen and ap-
preciated by the farmers-the men who
make the worlds wheels go round.
1 In the next car is still more of this con-
centrated exposition-an chronological
exhibit, showing !, the insect pests under
glass; spraying outfits; veterinary drugs
and instruments for farmers use; the
cattle tick: what it costs Georgia every
year: $s.5OO.0o0;" plant food that is re-
moved from every acre by various plants;
an exhibit of soils; fertilizer exhibit;
I budding and grating demonstrations;
contact insecticides; fungicides; combina-
tions for diseases and insects; patent
I sprays; some things public school teach
ers can do for the advancement Of their
pupils" lining experiments; Fertilizer ex-
4 periments: yield Of different strains and
varieties of corn; the Boys Corn club ex-
hibit one of the most interesting on the
train: and a framed photograph Of young
I2-year-old Joseph Stone, who won honor
among the juveniles of Georgia recently
/ BY carrying away the first prize in the
corn growing contest.
MACHINERY CAR.
/ On the machinery fiat car all classes of
farm machinery will be shown in motion.
the power to run them being generated
/ by 40 horsepower dynamo that will also
furnish electric lights for the exhibition
coaches. Among these will be a gin.
plaws and harrows. planting machines,
etc. with gasoline engines and other pow
er exhibits like rams and windmills. all
in motion.
In the palace stock car will be carried a
pair of draft Percheron horses, the breed
/ ing OF which would save part of the
/ s. 10000 now sent out of Georgia each
| year Cor work stock; some fine specimens
of beef animals of the Hereford breed;
ditto OF dairy cottle. showing the Jersey
and Holstein breeds; the Berkshire and
Tamworth breeds Of swine; flock of
sheep; and a poultry show, exhibiting the
breeds best adapted to. Georgia condi-
/ tons.
All the live stock. and all the exhibits
in fact, come from the State College of
Agriculture. Complementary. they show
| what is being done at the college and
/ taught there, and what can be done by
any and every farmer in Georgia. As
a whole. they sound the deathknell of the
old. and wasteful farming methods which
have been tending to keep the south in
the one-crop rut and TO keep the yoke
OF dependence down upon the farmers
neck.
PERSONNEL OF PARTY.
AS to the party aboard. there are. be-
sides representatives of the press, DR..
Soule, State Commissioner Of Agriculture
Thomas G. Hudson. State Entomologist
worshsm, who will be relieved from
| time TO time by his assistants j. c.
Bradley and A. c. Lewis; NJ. L. Brit
tain, state school commissioner; E. Cab
aniss. president of the Farmers union of
Georgia; and the following members Of
the department of agricultural extension
/ OF the state college: Jonas z. Hhe, direc-
tor of extension work: ]. Phil Campbell
OF the United States department of agri-
/ culture. cooperating in Georgia with the
II state CDiAcSGs anu OF the boys
i corn clubs, and other schol work: Will
\ liam NJ Landess. professor OF animal
husbandry work; and G. w. Firor, pro-
fessor of horticulture. Relieving each
/ other at intervals of several days or a
week throughout the tour of the train
there will also be aboard the following
members OF the college faculty: John r.
| Fain. professor of agronomy: Alfred
4 Alderman. forestry; Milton p. Jarnagin.
/ animal husbandry; Robert ]. II. De-
/ Loach, cotton industry; William NJ. Bur-
son. veterinary science; Thomas II. Nc
| Hatton. horticulture: Leroy c. Hart
II adjunct professor OF farm mechanics:
Il WulAaU A woEsho3. ~. ags4ezltuRAl
Il chemistry; Phares o. vanatter, superin-
Il tendent of field demonstrations; Am
brose p. Winston. foreman Of the COL