The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-11-10
Farm Demon
stration Train.

the n u w. lines in Virginia
by the n. q w. IN cooperation
with the Farm Demonstration
authorities, came over the
Clinch Valley division last
week. 1t made three stops in
Wise county, at ST. Paul, Coe
burn and Norton on Saturday.
october 3Oth. Nearly 1000
people were in attendance at
these stops, the larger crowds
being at Coeburn aud Norton.
There were three cars for lee
lures and demonstrations three
for live stock, two exhibition
cars filled with farm products
from all the counties traversed
by the n x w. aud one car for
the personal ACCOMMODATIONS of
the lecturers and crew making
"a train of nine cars. Professors
Davidson, Drinkard aud Hunt
of the Faculty Of the Virginia
Agricultural College at Blacks
burg, were among tho lectures
and spoke on SOILS and Ferti.
lizers;' "Fruit Growing" and
"Live Stock respectively. j
r.. Hutcheson, w. u. Moore, of
the Farm Demonstration field
force, assisted in handling the
visitors and atteding the exhibit
cars. About half OF one OF the
EXHIBIT cars was occupied by a
very attractive display of seeds
and products 10y Il. w. Wood
and Sons Of Richmond. j. NJ.
Gish, Farm Demonstration
agent of Roanoke County, was
present in the exhibit cars, as
many of the products exhibited
there were from Roanoke
county.
Miss ELLA Agnew, State agent
i'm Girls Canning Club work,
Miss Mollett of the Domestic
Science Department of the Nor
NAL School at Badford, and
lady from the Health Depart
ment at Richmond, delivered
lectures and demonstrations in
q separate car to the ladies on
Home Econmoics, Proper Care
of children, etc. MIR. Dnkum,
a representative of the Indust-
rial department of the y IL w
Railway, aided in handling the
crowd and had general charge
of the Railway company S in
terest. County Agent Stiles
met the train ut St. Paul and
assisted in handling tile crowds
attending the exhibit cars
while in Wise county. The
crowds We're much Interested
and enthusiastic. At Coeburn,
John Lifts took the lecturers for
ON automobile ride around the
town and =. q. Lifts took Prof.
Drinkard IN an auto TO his large
orchard of 10000 trees and
brought back some fine fruit to
be placed on exhibition aboard
the train.
The Live stock consisting of
one pure bred Percheon mare,
one Yorkshire, one Berkshire
and one Duroc Jersey hog, one
Hereford COW, one Short Horne
cow, one Black Polled Angus
COW, two Jersey COWS, one
Cnrnesey COW, one Holstein
COW, and two beef steers were
objects of much interest. Prof.
Hunt ably explained the good
and bad points of these ami
mails to his large and Interested
audience. The sum and sub
stance of his remarks was, an
animal is a machine, be sure
The machine is n good one.
DON'T keep an animal for its
company one that only pays
Its board, but get one and keep
account with this animal to see
II 1t is giving you "a proper re
lurn for the money invested.
The people of Wise County
luily appreciated the co-opera-
tive efforts of the n. & w.
Hallway and the Farm Demon
stration authorities of Virginia
IN their ondeavor TO better
farming conditions and hope
mat their efforts will be crown
cd with the success they observe
throughout the Old Dominion.