Special Trains in Agricultural Work. 



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promise. From time to time "good roads trains" and otliers have since 

 been operated in Missonri. Last year the jMissouri,. Kansas and Texas 

 Kailway Company put on an agricultural train ; the Frisco two trains, 

 one a dairy and agricultural train, the other a "good roads demonstration 

 train," carrying a complete complement of road working machinery. 

 The Kansas City, Clinton and Springfield road ran a novel ' ' dairy, good 

 roads and poultry train, ' ' made up of motor cars. Other railroads mak- 

 ing applications for assistance in the way of speakers and teachers for 

 their trains had to be refused, as the Agricultural College and Board of 

 Agriculture were unable to supply men at the time the officials wished 

 to operate the trains. 



Prof. E. A. Trowbridge Speaking to One of tlie Crowds at Marionville. 



From the box-car beginning to the four big agricultural trains of 

 the spring of 1911 — trains made up of comfortable lecture cars for the 

 hearers, sleeping and dining cars for the speakei-s, and specially equipped 

 baggage ca,rs for live stock — represents not alone a growth born of ambi- 

 tion, but rather a breadth of vision and a desire on the part of those 

 whose work is inseparably connected with the soil to better serve the 

 State. Once it was enough to merely establish an agricultural school; 

 later it was thought worth while to conduct a campaign to encourage 

 students to come ; today, with colleges crowded, we are literally loading 

 our learning behind locomotives and pulling it to the people. 



On all the agricultural special trains were one or more representa- 



