Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1913-03-25
.THEM|LWAUKEE
FARM|NGT TRAIN
DISPLAY ILLUSTRATING BETTER
FARMING METHODS VISIT
ED BY MANY.
STAFF IS ENTERTAINED

town People at Judith Club-Prac-
ticaI Talks of Much Interest and
Value Given at the Train-crowds
at Moore and Straw.
The first better farming train ever
put on in Montana by the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul road arrived in
Lewistown yesterday afternoon at four
o'clock, exactly on the schedule time,
and with the full equipment of cars
and lecturing staff. The train consist
ed of eight exhibition cars, filled along
one side of each car with exhibits IL
Illustrative of modern methods in agri-
culture and the home, and explana-
tlOns OF the science that underlies
modern life. Along the open side of
the cars passed crowds of Lewistown's
citizens looking over the exhibits and
asking questions and listening to the
twenty lecturers and demonstrators
on the train. All the cars were crowd
ed during the five hours in which the
train was open here. The attendance
here was the largest thus far in east
ern Montana.
The previous stops of the day were
at Straw and Moore, where the
weather was more propit1ous than
| here, and the attendance and interest
was splendid.
| The expenses of the farm train is
borne Jointly by the railroad and the
board of farmers Institutes for Mon
tana, the services of the college staff
being given without charge. This is
the first train of the kind equipped by
the Milwaukee road in Montana.
itinerary OF Special.
The train started at Bozeman on
March II, visiting the towns on the
Gallatin Valley road, and then working
via Butte to the west end of the state,
and so eastward again. They spent
Sunday at Harlowton, and go on from
here, with stops today at Garneill and
Judith Gap, to Baker, ending their tour
at the eastern edge of the state on
Saturday night.
Up to the arrival at Lewistown,
some ten thousand people had visited
the cars during it's trip across the
state. That number would probably
have been doubled had it not been for
the stormy weather, which seriously
/ AAASSA ASASu eAI AAAAAy VI lAIO oLOpo.
After the close of che exhibition
cars at nine O'Clock last night the train
staff were informally entertained at
the Judith club rooms, and met large
number of the Lewistown business
men.
A Splendid Staff.
The staff which accompanies the
better farming train in eastern Mon.
tana is as follows:
Prof. F. S. Cooley, superintendent
of farmers Institutes for Montana, di.
rector of the train; O. E. Shaner, of
Chicago, immigration agent of the Oh.
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road; e
A. Bradley, travelling freight and pas.
senger agent of the same, with head.
quarters at Lewistown; E. D. Corn.
we'll, trainmaster, from Three Forks /;
Prof. w. NJ Cobleigh, state chemist
and professor of chemistry in the
Montana State College of Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts; o. B. Whipple
head of the department of horticulture
in the Montana state college; Prof
Edmund Burke, chemist of the Mon
tana experiment station, Bozeman; w
lB. Vestal, advanced student in the
civil engineering department of the
student in the home economics de
partment Prof. H. M. Jennison, of the
college department of botany, and Mrs
Jennison; Prof R. c. Jones, of the de
partment of dairyinS; DR.. w. ]. Tay
lor, head of the department of vet
erinary science; R. F.. Miller, assistant
animal husbandman in the Montana
experiment station; A. F. Clarkson
student in animal husbandry; M. l.
Wilson, lecturef~On agrOnomy and dry
land farming and field crops for the
farmers institute board; DIR. w.
Hartman, lecturer on animal industry
and farm machinery for the farmers
institute board; Miss Lila A. Harkins
professor of domestic science In thu
Montana state college; J. R. Parker
assistant entomologist in the Montans
experiment station; H b. Bonebright
instructor in agricultural engineerin,
in the state college; Miss M. L. Has
kins, clerk in the office of farmers in
stitutes; Hon. o. c. Gregg, of Mime
sofa, one of the most noted farmers
institute workers in the United States
and formerly superintendent of inst
tutes for the state of Minnesota; W
F. Brewer, of the department of Eng
lish in the Montana state college, Il
charge of publicity. Part of this sta1
have been with the train for it's eI
tire trip throughout the state, an
part have been only in eastern Nor
tana, replacing those who were wit
the train on it's trip in the wester
half of Montana.
Some Practical Talks.
Prof. o. B. Whipple, horticulturis
4 is with the better farming train t
preach the gospel of better potatoes