The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26
COLLEGE ON WHEELS
NOW ON THE WAY

Oklahoma City. Jan. 24,-Bringing
a college to the farmers on train is
what is now being done in eastern
Oklahoma, through the courtesy of
the NJ, X. & T. Railway company The
first poultry and pure seed train of
1912 under the direction of the Okla
homa state board of agriculture and
tine A. & NJ. College. started Wednes-
day morning from Arcadia on a ten
days trip that will cover a lage por.
ton of eastern Oklahoma, stopping at
twenty points.
These specia agricultural trains are
proving extremely popular over the
state and large crowds attend the lee
lures at every stop. In the first place,
the train does not cost the tax payers
of the state penny; the railroad COM
pany pays the entire operating ex-
Ipense of the trip. In the second place
the farmer is given a chance to hear
carefully prepared lectures on agri-
cultural subjects by men who know
and to see the poultry, fine dairy cat
tile, and samples of prize winning seed
with his own eyes
An Oklahoma farmer grew the
wheat that took first prize at the Dry
Farming Congress at Colorado Springs
lIact ,,aor ~ cnv,rof;tsor With 4bo a.,
tire world A half of the winning
bushel is on this train and is one OF
the most interesting exhibits carried
on the trip. Other prize products OF
the Oklahoma farmers are carried, as
well as the best poultry and live stock
that experts can grow, and an excel
lent set of lantern slides for the night
lectures.
Leaving Arcadia Wednesday morn
ing, the train started northward on the
Katy, making it's first stop at Cush
ing. The schedule for the entire week
includes stops at Yale, Jennings, Hal
lett, Hominy, Broken Arrow Wag
oner, Pryor Vinita Checotah, Grow
: der, Kiowa, Atoka, Durant, Ada, Coal
gate. Stonewall, Konawa and Maud
with evening sessions at Cushing
Hominy, Wagner, Vinita, Crowder
: Atoka, Coalgate and Konawa.
: Lectures are being given at the
, train on: Better Poultry for Oklaho
: ma; Selecting, Feeding and Breeding
Poultry; Increasing Crop Yields OF
: the Acre, by Seed Selection, Prepara
, ton, and Cultivation; Bermuda Grass
! Agricultural Education in Oklahoma
, Good Roads; the Orchard as a Source
lof Profit in Eastern Oklahoma; Corn
: Alfalfa and Live Stock; Types o
J Dairy Cattle; the Babcock Test and 1t!
: Application Seed Corn; and How the
College Assists the Boys and Girls
: agricultural Clubs.
; President G, T. Bryan of the stat'
5 board of agriculture and President j
) II. Connell of the State A. & NJ. Col
! Ilege will be with the train at a mum
Der of stops but Dean B. G. Pittucl
of the secondary agricultural schools
, lis in charge of the trip. The Lecturers
consist of J. w. l.. Corley, Geo. Ii
Kinds and Frank l.. Haynes of th'
: board of agriculture; Secretary Benz
? ITennessy of the board; Dean Pittuck
lDean w. A. LinkIater of the division
Z of agriculture; Director James A. vii
: son of the state experiment station
Professor Roy C. Potts of the dair.
; department: Professor n. c., Boot
: of the horticultural department; Su
: Iperintendent Marie Woodson, demon
; stration farm department; Superin
) tendent NJ. f. Ikard. live stock depart
: ment; Professor o. o. Churchill, agron
: omist; Supervisor John W. Wilkinson
: of the Boys and Girls Agriculture
Clubs: Professor H. A. Bittenbender
: instructor in poultry management
: and Charles P. Light, field secretar,
American Association for Highway i'm
provement.
All of the lectures are free and th'
farmers are urged to attend and brinl
! their families. AS soon as this tril
is finished. arrangements have beel
| partially completed for the Santa ~
railway to take up the train and carr!
: it on a further trip into another sec
e ton of the state.
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