The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-07-03
Farm Special Train
Teaches Lessons
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in telling the people of the eighteen
towns that the train is visiting on
its tour.
1t has. cost the college and the
railroad thousands of dollars, and
it has taken the representatives of
both, weeks OF work to plan and
prepare the exhibits and displays
which the train carries. Some %
or 30 representatives of the two
organizations have been with the
train during a. or part of the
tour. Among the railway repre-
sentatives who have been with the
train are F. W. DeGuire, executive
assistant to Charles Donnelly,
president of the road, John w.
Haw, director of agricultural de-
velopment for the road, Irving J.
Courtice, of Billings, and Louis
Campbell, of Missoula, both agri-
cultural development agents; H. NJ.
Byerly, general immigration
agent; w. P. Stapleton, agricultur-
al development agent from Spok-
ane, J. E. Murnane, travelling
agent; William Toussaint, of the
land office at Circle.
Among the college representa-
tives have come j. G. Wilson, dir
ector of the agricultural extern
sion; M. L. Wilson, Elmer E..
Starch, Paul Carpenter, and V. D..
Gilman of the agricultural econ
omics department; Fred Bennion,
leader of county agents, H. E. Muir
, dock, professor of agricultural Ell
gineering; Ralph Kenck, assistant
in the same department, and Wal
: do Kidder, extension agronomist.
The college will be glad to send
to anyone who wishes it a copy Of
a bulletin soon to be issued which
will tell all about this train and its
work. Write the college if you wish
it. 1t viii also send to anyone
who wishes it; free, monthly
paper, called the Agricultural Out
.. look, which gives the best infor-
nation the college can secure on
prices and demands for Montana
products, market trends, new ideas
: of economy in production or mar
keting. iiiN Assli 2
E A Complete Train
ID The belief that even with low
prices Montana agriculture has a
profitable future, because the state
q can produce three of the great
standard products cheaper than
any other place. in the world has
led the Montana State college and
the Northern Pacific railroad to
send through the, state a trainload
, of facts and figures and illustra-
tions as proof. Cattle, sheep, and
!. wheat, because of Montana's adj
vantages of soil, climate, and en-
terprising population can be pro-
duced here at a profit, if produc-
ton costs, BY methods that have
been tested by the college at its
experimental farms, aare used to
reduce labor and increase yields.
The train consists of four dem
onstration cars with samples,
maps, pictures, graphs, cartons,
directions, slogans, rules, and prin-
cipies, in which the visitors are
conducted by college experts who
explain AL these things into a con-
.nected story of Montana's coming
prosperity. Following these four
coaches are fourteen flat cars
loaded with various types Of ma
chinery which have been tested by
the college experts, and which are
labelled, each one, with the actual
proven cost per acre of operation
under Montana conditions. Farm
ing has become largely a matter
of effective use of machines and
lpower, and these cars are to help
those who wish to make use of
machinery in the modern and econ.
omical way. There is no adver-
Using matter displayed, nor adj
vertising talk given, only the plain
facts about the college tests of
each. type Of machines.
The first demonstration car is
called the outlook car, which deals
with the general outlook of World
agriculture and explains some
thing about how prices are deter
mined. The first exhibit is of SIX
horses hitched up to a small wa
gon, the various horses labelled as
follows: Experience, Equipment,
Soil, Climate Markets, Finance.
Above this team is the motto:
"It's the Team, Plus Intelligent
Driving"
Next comes series Of sacks of
wheat, each containing more and
more than the preceding, and
showing how the carryover Of
Wheat has been getting larger,
year by year, until the accumla-
ton has forced down the price.
Then is presented in graphic
form the evidence that the demand
for means is increasing in the I'm
tied States while we are still i'm