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Show DEMONSTRATION TRAMMING Scheduled to be nt Lund April Fifteenth to Give Lectures and Demonstrations. BIGGEST THING OF THE KIND YET ATTEMPTED Rare Opportunity Afforded Farmers of Southern Utah to Get in Touch With Improved Methods. The demonstration train operated by the Agricultural Colleges of Utah and Nevada over the lines of the Salt Lako Routo will spend tho entire day of Saturday, Sat-urday, April 15, at Lund. Never before has so complete-un exhibit ex-hibit been carried on a train of this description nnd, from both an educational educa-tional and development standpoint its visit to Lund gives tho peoplo of this section an opportunity that must not bo overlooked. On board the train Itself will be a series of exhibits forming nn education educa-tion in them selves. There is the exhibit ex-hibit of the Consolidated Wagon and Mnchine Company allied with the Holt Manufacturing Company of California Califor-nia and tho John Deere Company of Illinois. This exhibit will be operated so as to make it most Interesting as tho Holt Caterpillar Tractor, which forms a feature of the exhibit, will bo unloaded and, in conjunction with plows from the famous John Deere factory, will give a practical demonstration demon-stration of tho most modern method for breaking and cultivating land. The loading and unloading of this great piece of machinery will also ahow the PrfectlonnhhUielmTSwheajn" the handling of such a labor saving device Allied to these plowing and tractor demonstrations will bo the expert advice ad-vice of Dr. W. E. Taylor, who, as the soil exnert for tho John r,.- r pony will bo on hand both in tho field demonstrations of his firm'B machinery machin-ery and will also take part In the several meetings which form the real educational features of tho train's tour. This entire exhibit will include two cars one of which will be filled with the latest inventions in labor saving machinery as produced by the John Deere Company and supplied in this section by the Consolidated Wagon and Machine Company. These devices will all bo demonstrated nnd explained by experts accompanying the train. One of the important exhibits also will be tho car devoted to tho demonstration demon-stration of specialties manufactured by Fairbanks Morse and Co. Theso will include pumping plants, electric generating nnd operating plants, gasoline gaso-line plants and many other now and practical devices for the development nnd operation of tho ranch or farm. With the rapid advance in water discoveries, dis-coveries, the subject of pumps and their operating power, whether gasoline gaso-line or electricity, becomes most important im-portant and this exhibit shown in actual ac-tual operation really points the way to a rapid and economical method of development that will add many thousands of acres to tho productive area of Utah and Nevada. A car will bo devoted to the exhibit of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company. Here will be demonstrated the best and surest methods for tho successful cultivation cul-tivation of the sugar beet that has of late become so important a factor in inter-mountain prosperity. There will also be a demonstration of the househould uses to which the finished product from the beet fields may be put and experts will tell the story of sugar's value to the housewife both on board the train and in the meetings devoted to home economics. Still another feature of tho train will be the exhibit of the General Electric Company which will possess special interest both for the men and women visitors. This great corporation corpora-tion that has brought forward so many Inventions for the modernization of the home and ranch, will show the very latest products ranging from a complete com-plete plant for the production of light and power down to the diminutive curling iron so prized by ladles of up-to-date ideas. On tho list will also be washing machines, wringers, fiat irons, heaters, stand lamps, suction sweepers, hand lanterns, eloctrie ranges, ovens, toasters, broilors and shafting dishes with many other inventions in-ventions for tho practical uso of- what is destined to become tho most serviceable service-able of earth's elements. No such complete exhibit has over been available avail-able to the people of southorn Utah und Nevada, und with the rapid advance ad-vance in the use of electricity within and without the home this showing of the General Electric Company bo-comes bo-comes especially Important alike to tho rancher and housewife. Yet with this demonstration train of 1910 tho housewife hus an added advantage ad-vantage for the colleges have prepared pre-pared still another car devoted exclusively ex-clusively to homo economics. Thlif car is under the personal direction of Miss Gertrudo McCheyno and assistants and will be nn exhaustive exhibit of everything modern In hdme develop, ment There will be npeclal meetings for the ladies at which Miss McChoyne nnd her assistants will give practical demonstrations in connection with Interesting In-teresting lectures. For theso meotlnga special electric fixtures will be installed in-stalled wherover electricity is avail-nblo. avail-nblo. Three cars of tho train will appeal particularly to the men. These aro tho collego cars containing practical working models Illustrating the latest methods for the handling of Irrigation water and models of every class of form and ranch structure. There will also be n car filled with tho choicest Ilvo stock from which tho rancher may learn to judge the points of animals In evory type. To educate the wool grower tho Government is sending a full car of wool exhibits with an experienced demonstrnton to make plain tho latest scientific methods of wool production. These are only a few of tho train's special features but tho meetings to bo held In connection with tho exhibits are by far tho really important features fea-tures of tho tour. Nothing has been left undone to secure tho highest class of experts to take part in theso meetings. meet-ings. In addition to Dr. Taylor of tho John Deere Company, there will be Dr. E. G. Peterson, President elect of tho Utah Agricultural College: Prof. C. S. Knight, Dean of Nevada's Agricultural Agricul-tural Collego; Prof. J. G. Scrugham, Doan of Nevada's College of Engineering; Engineer-ing; Prof. John T. Caine HI, Utnh's famous expert in animal husbandry; Prof. L. M. Wlnsor, government irri-eation irri-eation export; Prof. Ben R. Eldridge, tho most practical dairyman In the entire west; Dr. F. S. Harris, Utah's leading expert in agronomy; Prof. Byron Alder, an expert on poultry and poultry raising; Mr. J. V. Paxmnn, who was selected by the government aB the best versed nnd most practical expert on dry farming, and MIsa Gertrudo Ger-trudo McCheyne who, with hor assistants, assist-ants, will lecture upon and demonstrate demon-strate homo economics tho most important im-portant subject covered by tho demonstration dem-onstration train. With this gathering of talent, tho educational possibilities of this train are unlimited and the Agricultural C611eges, allied with the combination of progressive exhibitors nnd tho officials offic-ials of tho Salt Lake Route hope that their combined efforts will prove of advantage toevery,treflldenfr"of- Titan and Nevada. |