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also demonstrates that in this movement for agricultural education 

 there are many things at hand which can be well extended to the 

 advantage of every one interested in agriculture. 



For some long time the results of agricultural research and in- 

 vestigation have been carried to the farmer through bulletins and 

 agricultural papers. These have done an untold good and they are 

 still a necessary factor in the movement for better agriculture. How- 

 ever, we must admit that owing to the fact that farmers do not apply 

 in any direct way what they read, these publications have not accom- 

 plished all that could be desired. For these reasons and in order that 

 the farmer might be brought into closer touch with helpful information 

 pertaining to farm operations and in order that he might be encouraged 

 to apply directly the principles and facts, several new movements have 

 been inaugurated. A few of those taken up in Indiana during the 

 past few years will be cited. 



EDUCATIONAL TRAINS. 



The first important movement taken up by the Indiana Station to 

 reach the farmers of the state was the rimning of a corn train. The 

 first corn train was run in December, 1905. Since that time com trains, 



Address on Corn — Corn Train. 



soil trains, horticultural trains, and dairy trains have been run over 

 almost every line of the state. More than 150,000 people have been 

 reached in this way and the publications of the Experiment Station 

 placed in their hands. In the educational work the train has been a 

 most important factor. Through it people have been aroused and their 

 interest directed to the subject of agriculture. 



