Traveling publicity campaigns : $b educational tours of railroad trains and motor vehiclesRoutzahn, Mary Swain
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Traveling publicity campaigns : $b educational tours of railroad trains and motor vehicles
Routzahn, Mary Swain
Educational exhibits, Traveling
=Canada. Better Farming Train.= Subject: assistance in every phase of
farm life. Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture and the College of
Agriculture of the Provincial University co-operated with Canadian
Pacific Railway. 1918 and 1919. Thirteen cars with exhibits or
equipment for demonstrations and lectures. Prominent professors and
agricultural officials served as demonstrators and lecturers.
=Sheep Car.= Subject: breeding and shearing of sheep. Live Stock
Branch, Department of Agriculture at Ottawa. 1919. One car of
exhibits. Demonstrations of shearing machine given on farms.
=Special Dairy Car.= Subject: dairying. Saskatchewan Department of
Agriculture, College of Agriculture, and Canadian Northern Railway.
1916. Lecture coach and tourist sleeper for speakers. Exhibits with
stereopticon and lectures.
=United States. Poultry and Egg Demonstration Car.= Subject:
demonstrations of proper methods of handling and keeping poultry and
eggs. Bureau of Chemistry, United States Department of Agriculture.
1913 to 1918.
=Arkansas. Peach Culture Demonstration Train.= Subject: proper methods
of peach tree pruning and spraying. Co-operatively run by Agricultural
Departments of Missouri Pacific and Cotton Belt Railroads, American
Refrigerator Transit Company, and State College of Agriculture. 1918.
Two baggage cars for exhibits; large automobile freight car carried
orchard machinery. Exhibits explained by horticulturists, on the cars;
lectures and demonstrations given in nearby orchard.
=California. Dairy Special.= Subject: dairying and hog raising. State
College of Agriculture. 1913 and 1914. Lectures, conferences, and
exhibits relative to the industry.
=Agricultural and Food Production Train.= Subjects: methods of
stimulating growth of certain crops, interest in increasing food
production, and particularly bean culture. State Colleges of
Agriculture of Nevada and Utah and Salt Lake Railroad co-operated with
California’s State College of Agriculture. 1917. Demonstrations and
lectures.
=Agricultural and Home Economics Train.= State College of Agriculture,
co-operated with Southern Pacific Railroad. 1908 and 1909. Ten coaches
for exhibits and lectures, a dining car, and sleeper to accommodate
demonstrators and lecturers. Demonstrations and lectures.
=Agricultural and Horticultural Train.= Subject: methods of restoring
fertility and depleted soils, plant culture, pest and disease
extermination, viticulture, dairying, animal industry, seeding and
soil treatment. State College of Agriculture, Southern Pacific and
Santa Fé Railroads. Annually, 1908 to 1913. Several exhibit cars,
lecture cars, sleeping car, and diner.
=Good Roads Special.= Subject: improvement of roads, Frisco Railway
System. 1912. Four coaches and locomotive. Exhibits, lectures and
demonstrations.
=Florida. Food Production Increase Train.= Florida Seaboard Air Line.
1917. Demonstrations.
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