The Pure Seed and Home Power Special was the name given to a three-car train run jointly by the Soo Line, the Wisconsin Bankers’ Association, and the Wisconsin College of Agriculture in the interests of more efficient farm methods. The pure seed car contained a display of the finest Wisconsin grown seed grains, reinforced by explanations driving home the vital facts concerning the advantages of pure-bred seed. The home power and home convenience car showed gasoline engine, power churn, washing machine, separator, home lighting plant, and other conveniences. A lecture car and a tourist sleeper for the lecturers and demonstrators completed the equipment. Sixteen counties were visited and over seven thousand people came to see the train. The Hessian Fly Special, as described below, is an example of a highly specialized effort toward accomplishing a very definite purpose: Since its first appearance in Kansas as an important factor in wheat production, the Hessian fly has alternately disappeared and reappeared. During the forty-four years of its known presence in the state it has produced seven different out-breaks, the last and the greatest of which destroyed not less than fifteen million bushels of wheat of the 1915 crop. Believing that not only the attention of the farmers could best be called to the seriousness of the infestation, but also that more interest could be created in the control methods and that a larger number of wheat growers could be reached within a short time, the Kansas Agricultural College decided to request the Santa Fé Railway Company, which had a large mileage in the infested districts, to run a Hessian fly train.... A chart of the infested districts was furnished the dean of the Extension Division who met with the officials of the Santa Fé and prepared a schedule consisting of sixty-two stops. It was left entirely with the college to decide as to the best time to run the train and it was felt that, inasmuch as the methods of control of the fly should begin as soon as possible after harvest, the best and most opportune time for the train would be the week just before the beginning of harvest.