The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-29
SPECIAL is READY
Fe Demonstration Train
to start Tour Monday.
VIII Spread Gospel of the Cow,
Sow and Hen.

tho santa. re ana inc STATE ASH
cultural college, FOR the operations of
fhe Cow. Sow and Hen" demonstra- =
ron train which will start Monday
morning on a tour of the state. The.
frrfu Will visit fifty-three Kansas
Towns on the Santa Fe, lines winding.
7ip the trip with a big meeting at the.
Kansas Free Fair grounds IN Topeka
tthe afternoon IF Saturday. May L. IoI
encourage the farmers of Kansas to'
engage more in diversified farming IS
the object of the tour
4 Three steel stock cars. built espe-
ciaIly for exhibition purposes, weres
sent o. Ma uizittan this week over the
-Isock Island They are being loaded
today with tine agricultural college $
finest specimens OF dairy cows. soWs
ard hens. and sunday will be sent to
Argentine wherNe the special IS 70 De
made up sunday night Speakers
from the aeric ultural college anu
santa Fe officials who viii have
s.harce Of the train will assemble IN
Topeka SUNDAY afternoon and leave
Tor Argentine SundEy night in byrsin ess
car No. % attached to- train No 10
This train leaves Topeka at $50
Tho business car. flat car on
which the stock and poultry may be
exhibited. and the three cars carrying
the exhibits, VII compose the tram:
Tho business car viii be the home"
Of those accompanying the train on
the %rip. il is "a specially built car
Win sleeping and dining facilities
combined
Crufcc la Charge of Train
r. T.. Cruice. manager OF the santa
r-.-s arrfClIItnrstl and Industrial de-
r,-irtu enr- will be in charge OF the
1rain- J. F. FARRELL, editor OF me
Earth viii make the entire trap ana
division representatives OF e paSsen-
cor and freight departments viii be
with the train i'm their respeetlVe terri
tory. The several division suborinten-
.sorts will also travel with the train
and several high Officials. including r I
l.. Copeland secretary and treasurer
D. r Koontz. assistant fretght traffic
manager. and J. NJ. COnuel. generat /
Messenger agent. expect to be with
the marty at various times X b
cunningham. division fNeight agent; |
T. A Mitchell ad ertisiTrg agent ana !
representing the passenger. depart
F1ent: and r . Summers division SUI I
uerfut endeut viii be Win the tram
for the start out of Argentine.
Tho speakers which the agricultural
college will send with Thea train IN I
clude T. j. Talbert. of the extension !
denartmeut. who will have charge OF 1
the program at each town: l. E CalL I
professor Of agronOmy, J. b Fltchs I
professor Of dairy hushandTy; g w |
NIcCampbeN. professor OF animal nus
T.sudry-- W ~ LippinCOtt. professor I
~ rsouIfrv husbaudrv. and N l. Har- /
ris. extension specialist connected with
the poultry department The colAese
will also se-.d a publicity Isent with ?
rhe train and various other press rep
rasenratfves will make at least part !
-rhe first meeting will be held at \
Olathe. Monday morning where the
train is scheduled to stop X , o CLOCK i
ottawa will he the next stop at 11940 4
o'clock Meetings will be held at Gar 4
uett and lola in the afternoon and \
eleventh hour arrangements. have been 4
made To hold a night meeting at Hum Il
O'clock mute Will Il
b. the first meeting place the second 1
d1v The train viii be in the south Z
until the morning Of May 4 when II \
will apuear Mt Salina. The train will \
snend three DAYS in that vicinity going i
over various branch lines. and Monday n
morning. May s, will find il at Great 4
Bend The tour of the far southwest !
will wind up We'd esday night. May /
10 with "A meeting at Hutchinson. 4
after which the train viii head for 1
Topeka II viii be in Newton Thurs
day night May II. Emporia the next
might and meetings the last day viii
l,e held AT Usage City, Burlingame
aud Topeka
AIR Cruice. in a long distance tele-
phone conversation with President
tTnrIfue- of the agricultural college.
aodas-- was told that representatives of
she college in various parts Of che
state report that the farmers are sold
sou The ,sideline features of farming
~ HIGH the train Will represent, ana
from other reports received. it is pre-
-Iicted that the demonstration is going
go be a tremendous success All of
me towns To- be visited are showing
much interest and many of them VIII
viosc their schools and places of bust
lress in order that everybody may be
permitted to see the train and hear
abe lectures
Cow. sow and Hen Needed.
4 survey OF Kansas Industrial con-
ditions shows that during the depres-
sion Of the last year or two the milk
sow the brood SOW. and the hen saved
fnany family from financial disaster,
and the speakers with the demonstra-
tion train will tell the crowds a de-
sailed stcry about it. Once the Kansas
farmers are coaNed away from trying
20 raise only wheat and cora and give
fuorc attention to other lines. such as
she santa Fe and the college are now
-ryinE 40 encourage. il has been proven
they Will be better off and the state
more prosperous
The santa Fe officials have only
one reeret concerning the proposed
"trip and that is they will be unable
10 reach all OF the towns that are
remoring Tor a visit by the train
sfhree towns. Humboldt. Montezuma
and Zenith have been jammed into
rhe schedule the last minute. making
"a total Of fifty-three where meetings
viii be held. and the number could
rasily be doubled II the officials could
fneet the demand. Owing to cost OF
operation. however. and the fact that I
the school ear is nearing a close for
abe agricultural college. two weeks IS
she longest the train can be out The
train will stop at MontezumL May g.
1T o'clock in the afternoon and at I
Zenith. at ] o'clock. May 10. With
these two exceptions and the night
meeting at Humboldt The first day a.
out. the schedule OF the train is the
same as tha5ru blished two weeks ago.
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