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was felt that, inasmuch as the methods of control of the fly should 

 begin as soon as possible after harvest, the best and most opportune 

 time for the train would be the week just before the beginning of har- 

 vest. 



The train consisted of a baggage car, two modern steel day coaches, 

 each with a seating capacity of eighty-eight persons, which were used 

 for lecture cars, and a private car, consisting of parlor and observation^ 

 dining and sleeping compartments. It was understood at the begin- 

 ning that the train was to be an exclusive Hessian fly train and thus 

 it was advertised as the Hessian Fly Special, operated by the Kansas 

 State Agricultural College in cooperation with the Santa Fe. The 

 speakers consisted of three entomologists of the Agricultural College, 

 one entomologist of the United States Department of Agriculture, the 

 head of the Department of Agronomy, the Superintendent of 

 Farmers' Institutes, of the College, and one county demonstration 

 agent. In addition to the lectures, the company consisted of the 

 agricultural agent of the Santa Fe, the publicity agent of the Santa Fe, 

 the publicity agent of the College, and representatives of some of the 

 principal newspapers and farm publications. The divisional superin- 

 tendents and roadmasters accompanied the train over their respective 

 divisions of the road. 



Addresses were made at all of the sixty-two places scheduled. In 

 fact, at nearly all the places the attendance was such as to require 

 two speakers and, on several occasions, it required a third speaker to 

 accommodate the large crowd. If the attendance did not exceed 

 two hundred, the two speakers took care of them in the lecture cars, but 

 where the crowd was over two hundred the overflow was taken in the 

 waiting room of the depot, where a speaker was provided. Where 

 there was not an opportunity for the insect train' to stop, a lecturer 

 was dropped off to hold a meeting at the depot or an up-town place. 

 Later the man would be picked up by one of the regular trains and left 

 at a station where the Hessian Fly Special was scheduled to stop. 

 Or a man would be sent ahead on a regular train to hold a meeting 

 and would later be picked up when the Special came through. In a 

 few cases speakers were taken to neighboring towns in automobiles. 

 During the entire trip, every speaker on» the train gave practically 

 the same Hessian Fly talk. The entomologists and the agronomist of 

 the College prepared the speech, copies of wlych were furnished not 

 only to the speakers, but also to all the railroad officials and publicity 

 men who accompanied the train. The publicity men prepared before- 

 hand all the articles to be used by the newspapers in the places where 

 addresses were made. In other words, every address given and every 

 newspaper article published had just one message and that was the 



