The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-03-21
SEED CORN SPECIAL TRAIN.
Will Visit Leon on Saturday, March
3Oth. Good Speakers and
Corn Experts.

Inc QrSC SEED corn ana SOIL Specldl
train to be run over a railroad sys-
tenn in Iowa this spring will be that
of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad, leaving Des Moines the
morning of March 26 over the Rock
Island road to Indianola where it will
|start it's itinerary over the Burling-
ton system, visiting over eighty cities
!ond towns, and returning to Des
Moi1es at the end of two weeks.
At each town scheduled forty to
fifty minute lectures by agricultural
experts will be delivered in large
audience coaches attached to the
train with sufficient number OF
speakers to address overflow crowds.
These lectures will be under the d.
rection of Professor A. H. Snyder OF
the Extension Department of the
Iowa State College at Ames, assisted
by Prof. G. R. Bliss, Prof. M. A.
Hauser, Prof. H. L. Mosher, Prof. A.
A. Burger and Prof. Murl Mcdonald
also of the Extension Department of
the college. Other prominent agri-
culturists who have been invited to
accompany the train are Mr.. Henry
Wallace, former president of the
National Conservation Congress and
publisher of the Wallace Farmer, Mr..
James Pierce, publisher of the Iowa
Homestead; Mr.. James Atkinson,
editor of the Homestead; Mr.. Alison
Secor, editor of Successful Farming
Mr.. Howard Whitney, editor. of the
Register and Farmer Mr.. George.
M. Chapel, director of the, Iowa
Weather and Crop Service Bureau.
and Mr.. A. R. Corey, secretary of the
Iowa State Board of Agriculture.
One of the most interesting feat
ures of the special this year will be
the analysis by experts of tests that
have been made sufficiently long
enough before the arrival of theEtrain
for termination. The Agricultural
Extension Department will send rep
resentatives a week in advance of
the train to collect as many samples
as possible from different partss of
each county with which to prepare
tests. These will be opened on the
arrival of the seed corn special and
a practical demonstration will be
given the farmers in the conditioner
their corn and the method of deter
mining that which is suitable for
IL
back in the crib for feeding purposes.
Actual results obtained at the sever
al soils experiment stations in south
ern Iowa will be shown in addition
to lectures on soil, soil fertility, ro-
tation of crops, etc.
The train will leave Des Moines
pulled by two engines and will be
composed of two audience cars, a
Pullman sleeper, Pullman diner
and an officers car. Among the rail-
road officials who will accompany the
train will be Mr.. E. r. Puffer, gener-
al freight agent of the C. B. & @. r.
r. Co.; Mr.. w. G.. Wagner, of Bur
lington, division freight agent; and
Mr.. E. H. Hunter, of Des Moines, the
special representative of the Burling-
ton railroad.
The train will make stops at sta
tions in Decatur county as follows:
Grand River, Saturday, March 80,
arrive at 2:15 p. m, depart at 800
p. m. 5s
Van Vert, Saturday, March 30th,
arrive at 3: 20 p. m, depart at 400
p. m. s.,3s
Leon, Saturday, March 30th, ar
rive at 4:35 p. M, depart at 5:15
p. m. Et'-@S.
Lamont, Monday, April 1st, arrive
at 1850 a. M, depart at 11:40 a. m.
Davis City, Monday, April 1st, ar.
rive at 1855 a: M, depart at 12:45.
IA. m. ','. :.
Garden Grove, Monday, April 1st,
arrive 1925 p. M, depart 2:15 p. M.