Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-01-30
DEMONSTRATION
TRAIN COMING
WILL BE IN DALLAS MONDAY
OF NEXT WEEK
Practical Demonstrations and Lee
lures Will be Given Free. Dairy
ing and Hog Raising.

Demonstration train will be at Dal
las on Monday, February End, '10.5
a. m., and 1890 p. m.
Using seven cars for the purpos
the greatest demonstration train eve
sent out in the northwest will be il
this city on February End, with it.
exhibits of dairy cattle and hogs, it.
model dairy plant, splendid exhibit
of feeds for producing best results
and of silors and silage. Lecture.
will be given aboard the train be-
tween the hours of 1890 a. M, and
1880 p. M, one ear being devoted
to the uses of those interested in
dairying, and another to housing, the
hog growers.
Among the noted animals from the
pens of the farmers college that will
be seen here will be the champion
Ayrshire heifer of the Pacific Inter-
national Stock Show. Twenty hogs
of all breeds are carried for demon
strating marketing and breeding Sc
lections and their development at var.
idns stages of feeding.
Lectures will be delivered by DR..
p 'Withycombe, Professors Metzel,
Groves, Potter, Barr, w. X. Newell.
A number of successful farmers are
with the train and will talk from ac-
tual experience.
in its effort to cooperate with ne
people along its lines the Southern
Pacific Company is bringing great
hog and dairy demonstration train to
this city Monday, February End, and
is especially anxious that every farm
er of this vicinity take advantage of
the opportunity to inspect the exhibits
carried on the seven cas- of the train
and listen to the lectures which will
be given in double doses. Lectures
on dairying and hog growing will be-
carried on at the same time in differ
ent parts of the train. The train
will be at the depot between the
hours of 1890 a. m. and 1890 p. m.
Flat cars are used for exhibiting the
stock.
There has never been time when the
development of these industries were
of more interest to the people of Ore
gon. Live hogs are commanding the
highest price in history, while there
is general shortage of meat animals
all along the line. Butter fat is sell
ling at an average of 33 cents per
pound, but Notwithstanding that fact,
Oregon is a large importer of butter.
Oregon Agricultural College is
sending DR.. Withycombe, Professors
Hetzel, Graves, Potter and Barr as
lecturers, while the train is carrying
a large selection of the best animals
produced at the college farm. All of
them are used in demonstrations.
When the Southern Pacific, Port
land, Eugene & Eastern, Oregon Ag-
ricultural College special demonstra-
tion for hogs and dairying arrives
here Monday, February End, one of
the men the people will want to listen
to, will be Chris Myhre, the man who
has made such a wonderful success ;
of the cooperative Danish colony
near Junction City. Beginning with
a few dollars in cash five years ago,
strangers in strange land, unable to !
speak the language of the country, /,
$50 Danes combined their forces in
marketing the products of their
farms. They engaged in dairying, !,
built cooperative creamery and are
far out along the highway to success. =,
Among the railroad men who will
be aboard the hog and dairy special
train at various times /
during the II day trip will be Robert
E. Strahorn, President of the PORT B
land, Eugene & Eastern Railway; H.
A. Hinshaw, General Freight Agent;
John NJ. Scott, General Passenger
Agent; ]. H. Mulchay, Assistant .
General Freight Agent; all of the U
Southern Pacific and Mark Woodruff,
in charge of publicity. = :,
1t is a practical method of bring !
ing the study course of the Corvallis u u
farmers school right up to the barn .
door of the man who is unable to L L
make the trip to Corvallis. l.
The train will be here on Monday,
February End, from 1910 a. m. to II
1890 p. m. and two lectures will be 81
yiven by the experts employed by the
,tate. Admission to the exhibits and
ectures is absolutely free.
The train consists of seven ears. G
rwo ears are used as barns for the d
he cattle and hogs. two for exhibi- al
ion purposes, two for lectures, and m