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
=Georgia. Land Clearing Special.= Subject: stump pulling and uses
of tractors and other farm machinery. State College of Agriculture,
stump puller companies and tractor manufacturers, Georgia Landowners’
Association, and the Railroad Administration co-operated. 1919.
Passenger coach and four flat cars for lectures and demonstrations,
caboose and sleeper for traveling campaigners, and two box cars
for equipment and machinery transportation. Motion picture shows,
demonstrations, and lectures.
=Illinois. Home Economics Car.= Subject: household science. State
College of Agriculture. 1916-1918. Demonstrations and exhibits.
=Dairy Trains.= State College of Agriculture and the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois Railroad. 1916, 1917, 1919. Three coaches for
lectures, automobile car and flat car for demonstrations and exhibits,
and a locomotive. Demonstrations of milking machine, lectures and
exhibits.
=Dairy Train.= Subject: uses of separators, sterilizers, and other
dairy machines. State College of Agriculture and C. C. C. & St. L.
Railroad. 1916 and 1917. Lecture coach for motion pictures, baggage
car for exhibits, and Arms Palace horse car for cattle.
=Dairy Train.= Subject: proper use of dairy machinery. State College
of Agriculture and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1916 and 1917. Pullman
car for attendants; stock car carried cattle, which were taken for
demonstrations to some prominent place in towns visited. Lectures in
court houses and town halls.
=Dixie Jersey Special.= Subject: more and better dairy cattle.
American Jersey Cattle Club, agents of Department of Agriculture
and railroad trade promotion bureaus. In Illinois, Louisiana,
Mississippi, and Tennessee. 1920. Arms Palace horse cars for cattle
and Pullmans for personnel.
=Indiana. Seed Corn Special.= Subject: corn culture. Erie Railroad and
Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station. 1909. Lecture train.
=Alfalfa Lecture Train.= Subject: better alfalfa production. Purdue
University Agricultural Experiment Station. 1912.
=Corn Improvement Lecture Train.= Subject: better corn. Lake Erie
and Western Railroad and Purdue University Agricultural Experiment
Station. 1911.
=Dairy Feeding Lecture Train.= Subject: better cattle feeding and
care. Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station and several
railroads. 1915.
=Dairy Special Production Train.= Subject: increase of dairy
production. Southern Railroad and Purdue University Agricultural
Experiment Station. April 1 to 7, 1913.
=Dairy Special Train.= Subject: dairying. Monon Railway Company,
Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station, and State Dairy
Association. 1907. Baggage car, two lecture coaches, and private
dining and sleeping car. Lectures, exhibits, and demonstrations.
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