special Trains in Aijricnilaral Wari,-. 



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elorkwui'k. The man whuse duty it was to aniiuuiK-e the lectures got 

 busy. The two lecture cars, with two lecturers in each dividing the time, 

 were hurriedly filled and the speakers launched into their subjects with- 

 out waiting for the formality of an introduction. In the depot waiting 

 room, on the platform or out in the open, some teacher from the Universi- 

 ty took charge of the school children. Sometimes, too, another speaker 

 talked poultry, so that there were from five to six speeches at each stop. 

 At xVlbany, old home of S. ^t. Jordan, institute director for the Board 

 of Agriculture, the crowd was so large that after the lecture cars had 

 been filled there were more people on the outside than there w\^re in the 

 coaches. Somebody, disappointed at being unal)le to hear his old friend. 



Dr. J. C. Whitten Addressing an Overflow Crowd at Mansfield. 



called out, "Come out, Sam, where all of us can hear you." Director 

 Jordan gladly heeded the suggestion and was heard by as many people 

 as his voice would reach. At several other places "overflow" meetings 

 had to be held. The daily programs, as carried out, made strenuous work 

 for the speakers, there being an average of about a dozen stops per day. 



Not until the locomotive whistle signaled the end of the lecture 

 period was anybody allowed to see the stock or to ])urchase seed. The 

 idea of those in charge of the work w^as that the visitors should take 

 home witli them something in their heads as well in as in tlieir liands. In- 

 struction, then seed, was the order of business. 



The enthusiasm of these meetings and the reception accorded the 



