Graham guardian., 1913-11-07
REACHES FARMERS
Demonstration Train of Un.
iversity of Arizona Is
a Success

1t is comparatively recent discov-
cry that the agricultural experiment
stations and agricultural colleges
have not been entirely successful in
accomplishing a maximum amount
of practical benefit for the farmers.
Heretofore the only means that
these institutions have had of reach
ing the farmers themselves has been
through bulletins and farmers insti-
tutes which field of action has been
limit I'd. Lately, however, agricuI-
tural institutions all over the United
States have been establishing what
are known as extension depart
ments," the object of which is to
bring the farmers into closer touch
with the experiment stations and
agricultural colleges. Under this
system the bulletins and farmers
institute service are retained, while
demonstration traiuS, press bureaus,
automobile lecture and UemOnStra-
ton tours and practical agrlcu,t tural
advisers to the farmers ire added.
The University Of Arizona aRricui-
tural experiment station has already
added the farm demonstration train
and press bureau and vii! soon de-
| vote considerable time to tx ending
| practical fe d advice to the farme rs
If Arizona. 1t has been found not
ony in Arizona, but also m Oshtr
stats that the CemOnstra ion ira n
has been most successful in reach
ing 4 large number OF fa! mers. In
some states several uanS n year
are being run, the railroads as well
as the farmers finding these cam
paigns profitable.
Last year in Arizona, At a cost Of
$1,000 TO the state. over rs, 900 per-
sons were enabled to see exhibits or
hear the lectures on the demOnstra-
ton train. One advantage Of this
lrain is the exhibition that goes with
the lectures. PeOp,e often are i'm.
pressed by things that they see when
the same thing told to them would
leave an imp ession. Again, so many
more people can be reached in a
short space of time. Thus in 1911
II about II 900 people attended far
mers' institutes in Arizona. whereas
last year over $4,000 were in attend
ance, the large increase being due
mainly to the demonstration train.
The genel al program as at present
outlined will be "a hours at every
stop, with cars open for inspection
from $3.50 Il. m. to noon. Special
provision will he made for school
children to visit the train in the
morning, schools to be dismissed
especially for this purpose. At 200
p. m. two meetings will be held with
demonstrations and lectures, one for
women in the lecture car and the
other for men in the livestock car
In the evening at 7:30 illustrated
lectures will be given in the town
hall or school house. Music will be
provided as often as possible and
special road building demonstrations
will be held every day.
The schedule over the Southern
Pacific and Arizona Eastern railroads
follows:
Phoenix, Tuesday, November 25
Buckeye, Wednesday, November
26.
Tempe, Friday, November 2S.
Mesa and Chandler, Saturday, No
vember rs. ..
Yuma, Monday, December l.
Casa Grande, Tuesday, December
10.
Tucson, Wednesday, December 8
Nogales, Thursday, December A
EIgin, Friday, December 5.
Benson, Saturday, December 6.
Pima, Monday, December s.
Thatcher, Tuesday December g.
Stafford, Wednesday, December 10
Bowie, Thursday, December H.
Wilcox, Friday, December II.
Cochise, Saturday. December 13
Pearce, Monday, December Is.