Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-03-07
COLLEGE TRAIN
TOURING STATE
Schools Closed at Stations Visited
and Large Crowds Met
the Train.

On Board Special Katy Agricultural
Train. Sealy. Tex, March 5.-The ar.
rival of the A. & NJ. College and Col
lege of Industrial Arts agricultural
special at stations on the Katy line
of the Houston division was the signal
today for a general closing up of
schools and mercantile establishments
and the proclamation OF holiday
And the best part of it all is that those
who are showing the greatest interest
in the topics discussed by the agricul-
tural experts from the State school
who are lecturing at these stops are
tenant farmers. At some stops many
of the audience were negroes with
some problem of agricultural signifi'
canoe to be solved.
Today's audiences have been liber-
ally sprinkled with women and chill
dren, and those who planned the OPP
Grafton of the train are seeing to 1t
that there is something for the farm
ers wife and his children to see and
to hear-to learn. The car fitted up
by the College OF Industrial Arts has
been the spot Of greatest interest TO
the women, while the children have
been entertained and instructed with
talks on live stock judging and agrl-
cultural topics which they could readi'
ly understand.
The first days results have been
highly satisfactory. Question after
question has been fired after each
speaker, and they've all been answer
ed Here as in practically all other
sections OF the State slage construc-
ton and dairying have created the
greatest interest. But horticulture is
a pursuit INDUCED in by many farmers
of this section of the State and the
problems these men meet are being
considered.
The first stop was at Katy, where
school had been closed until noon and
the stores closed. An audience OF $50
persons about evenly divided with re.
spect to men and women and children
greeted the speakers there. ]. Ed
Cabaniss, prominent rice grower and
l"mher man Of Katy, and who is in
terested in all the farmers problems,
assisted materially in working up in
terest in the train. A. Stockdick, mes.
chant and rice grower, was another
Katy man who "helped out" Prof.
r. C. Sanders of the high school, Miss
E, NJ. Kegler and Miss Kate Rays, of
the primary departments, chaperoned
us students, and these were conduct
ed through the exhibit cars.
Miss Jessie Southland and Miss Carl
bel Pitts we're interested in talking to
Miss Floris Culver, demonstration in
domestic science from the College OF
Industrial Arts, and failed to inspect
the remainder of the train. But they
had good horse and buggy, and when
the train took the siding at Brookshire
just few minutes later these two
Katy misses appeared and announced
that they wanted more time for inspec.
ton.
Prof. NJ. A. Mcdonald dismissed
school at Brookshire, and the 100 pu.
pills of that school marched to the
train in body. Business was practi.
cally suspended at Brookshire also and
an audience of $50 persons heard the
talks.
Dinners went untouched at Sealy,
and when the special arrived here at
1920 o'clock a crowd OF good proper
tons was at the depot Editor Moran
of the Sealy News has been active in
working up interest in the special, and