The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-03-21
The Demonstration Train.

The Demonstration Train.
DR.. W. r. Dodson, dean of the College
of Agriculture and Director of Experiment
Station of the Louisiana State University
and A. and M. College of Baton Rouge,
has issued the following information re-
garding the demonstration train and other
matters pertaining to his department:
The Louisiana State Demonstration
Train left Baton Rouge at :15 on Monday,
March 4, over the Baton Rouge, Hammond
and Eastern Railway, beginning its sixty
day itinerary over the State of Louisiana,
during which time it will visit practically
every portion of the State, or at least
wherever railroads are operated. The
train consists of baggage car, loaned by
the Southern Pacific railroad, coach
loaned by the New Orleans Great Northern
Railroad, coach loaned by the Rock
Island railroad, stock car, loaned by the
Frisco railroad, flat car, loaned by the
Illinois Central railroad, flat car loaned
by the J. I. Case Machinery Company,
and sleeper owned by the State Board of
Health.
In the Great Northern car is the exhibit
of the Boys Corn Clubs, which has been
shown in Chicago and elsewhere; the ex-
hibit Of the State Department of Educa-
ton, and the exhibit of the Louisiana State
Live Stock Sanitary Board.
In the Rock Island car is the exhibit OF
the Agricultural Experiment Station.
The stock cars contain the cattle and
hogs, and the several flat cars contain the
exhibits of farm machinery. These are
covered over and protected from the rain,
and electric lighted throughout, the train
has its own power and electric plant.
One of the features of the stops will be
the presentation of moving pictures on
instructive subjects at no cost to those
witnessing the exhibitions.
The car is the most modern ever sent
out by the agricultural and other authori-
ties interested in the demonstration. 1t
will do more toward advertising Louisiana
to Louisianians than any other agency,
and it is a we'll known fact that the people
o-day of this State are among the most
ignorant of the States natural resources
and possibilities. In the exhibit of the
State Department of Education are shown
photographs and plans for model rural
} and high schools and model miniature
rural school building constructed by w
} l.. Stevens of Baton Rouge, specialist in
modern school buildings. School equip
ment approved by the department is also
shown and all that pertains to the schools
from the main buildings to the outhouses
+ is shown.
The corn exhibit is the one that made
Louisiana famous throughout the North
and West at the Chicago Land Show, ano
was for some time exhibited in the Unior
Depot at that place by the Illinois Contra
Railroad. 1t has travelled all over the
country, and has served to call more atten.
ton to Louisiana among corn growers O
the country than any other agency.
The Live Stock Sanitary Board shows {
complete exhibit of all that pertains to the
prevention of hog cholera and the genera
!, health of animals for domestic purposes il
this State.
Special attention is given to tick eradi
cation appurtenances.
The car containing the general exhibi
q of the experiment stations shows practi
a cally all that is worth seeing in the line 0
:, Louisiana agriculture. The stock car i
filled with fine cattle, and the poultry ant
hog exhibit is one of the best ever assem-
bled. The farm machinery is all suscep
r tible to operation on the car for purpose
of demonstration, and includes ever,
q known device for the lessening of labor OF
the farm and in the home. The mechani
cal display is especially worthy the atten
ton of the public visiting the train.
q The schedule of the train throughout it
+ itinery has been announced before an
n the successful beginning of the trip bid
fair to make the train mark an era il
y Louisiana agricultural economics.