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
=Nevada. Agricultural and Food Production Train.= Co-operatively run
with State Colleges of California, Nevada, and Utah, and Salt Lake
Railroad. 1916 and 1917. See California.
=New Jersey. Save the Surplus Special.= Subject: food conservation and
other war measures. State College of Agriculture and Lehigh Valley
Railroad. 1917. Two coaches, one for exhibits and the other for
lectures. Toured New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Demonstrations, lectures,
and exhibits.
=New York. Victory Special.= Subject: introduction of wheat, meat, and
sugar substitutes and other food conservation methods. State College of
Agriculture, Food Administration and New York Central, Lehigh Valley,
D. & H., D., L. & W., and Long Island Railroads. 1917, 1918, 1919.
Demonstrations and exhibits on train of two coaches.
=Apple Packing Train.= Subject: instruction in requirements of law
relating to apple grading. State Department of Agriculture and New
York Central Railroad. 1915. Baggage car with equipment, lecture car
with capacity of 100 persons, and car for living quarters.
=Better Seed Special.= Subject: standard types of seeds; reliable
sources; proper methods of controlling common diseases. State
College of Agriculture, New York Central, Lehigh Valley, Ontario and
Western, Erie, and Delaware and Hudson Railroads. 1919. Exhibits and
demonstrations in two coaches.
=Potato Demonstration Car.= State College of Agriculture, County Farm
Bureaus, and Lehigh Valley Railroad. 1917. Exhibits and
demonstrations.
=Sheep Demonstration Train.= Subject: breeding, feeding, and care of
sheep. State College of Agriculture, New York Central and New York,
Ontario and Western Railroads. 1917. Exhibits and demonstrations.
=North Carolina. North Carolina Car.= Subject: farm machinery and
dairying. State Department of Agriculture co-operating with several
railroads. Lectures and exhibits with stereopticon slides and moving
pictures in baggage cars; demonstrations given out of doors.
=Better Farming Special.= Subjects: better dairying, domestic
science, food conservation, and sanitary methods. Agricultural and
Industrial Department of Norfolk and Western Railway, State College
of Agriculture of North Carolina, and Virginia Agricultural and
Mechanical College. 1915-1916. Nine cars for exhibits, demonstrations,
lectures, and living quarters for attendants.
=Corn Growers’ Special.= Norfolk and Southern Railway and Experiment
Station of the Agricultural and Mechanical College. 1908.
=Farmers’ Institutes.= Subject: agriculture and domestic science.
North Carolina Department of Agriculture, Seaboard Air Line, and
Southern Railway. Two railroad cars, one a coach with two of the seats
removed and a model kitchen substituted, and a baggage car equipped
with farm and dairy machinery. 1908-1910. Lectures and demonstrations
on the train and outdoors.
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