74 Missouri Agricultural Report. 



I desire to emphasize the able assistance given by Hon. T. E. 

 Quisenberry, Director of the State Poultry Experiment Station, R. 

 C. Lawry and Mr. Curtis Hill, State Highway Engineer. 



In the larger towns where the evening lectures were given, in 

 almost every instance the commercial club of that town took charge 

 of the meeting. In each town, also, a lecturer was provided for the 

 high school. 



Following concerning the trip is from the University Mis- 

 sourian, but as here used is necessarily condensed: 



Dr. W. P. C'Ullor, State Dairy and Pure Food Comniissioner, Prof. Frank L. Martin 

 and six students of the school of journalism, arrived in Columbia yesterday afternoon after 

 a five-day trip through northern ^lissouri on a dairy and poultry special train run by the 

 Burlington Railroad. Dean Walter Williams, wlio was on tlu> train three days, came liome 

 Saturday. 



The trip ended Saturday night at St. Joseph, where the party broke up. Dr. Cutler 

 and the journalists, with R. C. Lawry of Pacific, Mo., were taken in a special car to St. Louis, 

 the near point to Columbia on the Burlington's lines. 



Thirty-one towns in northern Missouri were addressed by the lecturers on board the 

 special train. It is estimated that not less than 20,000 persons heard the lectures. At 

 nearly every stop the two lecture cars on the train were filled, talks were made at the high 

 schools and in several towns overflow meetings were held on the station platform. The 

 trip is said to have been one of the most successful ever made by a railroad in this State. 



Dr. W. P. Cutler managed the trip, and a large measure of its success is due to him. 

 The six students in journalism, working under the direction of Professor Martin, furnished 

 news stories to about seventy-five newspapers. At Canton, Mo., the last lecture stop 

 during the first afternoon out, the merchants closed their stores to hear the lectures. Passing 

 through Hannibal, the train proceeded to Palmyra for the first night stop. A big meeting 

 was held in the Marion county courthouse. 



At New Cambria, on the second day's run, a brass band and an immense crowd met 

 the train. The night stop was at Brookfield. Dean Walter Williams joined tlie party 

 here and made an address in the circuit court room at Brookfield. The third night's stop 

 was at Cameron, Mo., and after the lectures the train left for St. Joseph, where tlie party 

 spent the night Friday. The train went north over the Creston branch of the Burlington, 

 a busy day ending with a night meeting at Maryville. The night was spent at St. Joseph, 

 and Saturday tlie train traveled over the Chariton branch as far as Ridgeway. At this 

 point, nine miles from tlie Iowa line, the highest attendance record was reached, close to 

 1,000 persons hearing the lecture. 



The lecturers on the special train were: Dr. W. P. Cutler, State Pure Food and Dairy 

 Commissioner; E. A. Ikenberry, State Dairy Inspector, Columbia; T. E. Quisenberry, 

 Director of the State Poultry Experiment Station, Moimfain Grove; R. C. Lawry, Pacific, 

 Mo., and Curtis Hill, State Highway Engineer, Cohimbia. Besides Dean Williams, who 

 was witli the party almost three days, tlie following were from the school of journalism: 

 Profes.sor Martin, E. R. A. Felgate, Shanghai. China; F. M. Harrison, Gallatin, Mo.; B. O. 

 Brown, Fort Worth, Tex.; Seigel Mayer, King City, Mo.; E. M. Todd, Columbia; Walter 

 Stemmons, Joplin, Mo. The following men were on the trip: J. D. Baker, division passenger 

 agent, St. Joseph: A. L. West, assistant general fi-(Mght agent, St. Joseph; F. E. Hollingshead, 

 general agent, Hanniljal; C. P. Lewis, superintendent dining <-ar service, Chicago; Sidney 

 Roy, secretary of the Hannibal Commercial Club, and .1. A. Corby of St. Joseph, were on 

 the train during parts of the trip. 



On the first of June Inspector E. A. Ikenberry tendered his 

 resignation in order to accept a position with the Federal Govern- 

 ment, since which time no especial inspection of the milk stations 

 in Missouri has been accomplished other than that incident to food 

 inspection. 



During the month of February, by invitation of Mr. Eugene 

 Bennett and Mr. Tom Hall, the Commissioner, together with In- 



