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Worcester, and large and enthusiastic audiences were addressed 

 by leading men on agricultural and allied topics. 



The enterprise from start to finish was declared a pronounced 

 success, and without doubt proved to be a valuable factor in 

 stimulating and advancing the farming and forestry interests 

 of Massachusetts. 



Electric Railroad " Farming Special '" Train. 



So marked was the value of the exhibition to the farming in- 

 terests of the territory traversed by the Boston & Albany special 

 that the officials of the New England Investment and Security 

 Company, which controls between nine hundred and one thou- 

 sand miles of trolley lines in western Massachusetts, immediately 

 tendered the Agricultural College and State department, with- 

 out expense, every facility and convenience which they had to 

 offer in running a trolley special over their lines in sections of 

 the State not covered by the former trip. 



In accordance with this plan, on April 14 four cars, equipped 

 in practically the same manner as those of the Boston & Albany 

 special, left Amherst on a three-days tour of education. The 

 itinerary was as follows: — 



Thursday, April 14. — South Iladley ; Russell ; Huntington ; Spring- 

 field. 



Frklaij, April 15. — North Wilbraham; Brimfleld; Sturbridge; Charl- 

 ton Center. 



Saturday, April 16. — Oxford; Holden ; Sterling; Worcester. 



Much enthusiasm and interest greeted the special at every 

 stop. At South Iladley nearly three hundred students of Mt. 

 Holyoke College attended the demonstrations and enjoyed the 

 lectures. 



A splendid agricultural rally was held at Springfield on the 

 evening of the 14th, under the auspices of the Springfield Board 

 of Trade, where over five hundred business men listened to an 

 address by President Butterfield of the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College, in which he in) pressed upon them the importance 

 of co-operation in advancing the interests of commercial farming 

 in our State. 



