Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1912 — Agricultural Exhibit Car Over the New York Central Lines [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Agricultural Exhibit Car Over the New York Central Lines

Perdee Uarrcrrity Agriotaral Extesrioe

Quite in line with the progressive spirit which has characterized Purdue university for many years ,1s the educational movement along agricultural lines which is fostered in the agricultural exhibit car now being operated over the New York Central lines in Indiana under the direction of the Purdue agricultural extension department The car left LaFayette on January 25, and will remain on the road for about four months, visiting in that time hundreds of hamlets, villages and agricultural towns and cities. Fully 200,000 persons will be brought into actual contact with the principles of the work being carried on at Purdue university and the Indiana experiment station at the university. Reports from the early towns visited show an immense interest in the exhibits, despite weather conditions. Schools have taken the opportunity of this practical lesson; and at -many of the stops hundreds of young students of agriculture have received- the benefit of the advanced agricultural suggestion. The exhibit car is a standard parlor coach, cleared of all chairs and useless appurtenances. Large boxes comprise the main feature of the exhibit, and in these are contained representa-

tive features of the work of the horticultural, dairying, animal husbandry, soils and crops and other departmental activities at the. Purdue experiment station. Chief among these is a seed corn. germinator—which is in constant operation, and proves a source of great interest to Indiana’s prospective corn kings. Visitors are shown various ears of seed corn and asked to give their opinion as to the germinability of these. They are then showed the actual results of the germination tests on each ear, and given ah opportunity of comparing their decisions with the most conclusive, scientific ones. The car is in charge of two Purdue graduates, -who give any desired information regarding the actual operations carried on at the state institution, and distribute the literature of the various departments to those actively engaged in, or interested in, some line of agricultural pursuit Industrial agents of the Big Four r&llroad, Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railway, Chicago, Indiana & Southern railroad, Lake Erie & Western railroad, over which the car is operated, are lending every effort to the movement and are sanguine in their confidence of the beneficial outcome of the trip through agricultural Indiana.

Interior View of Purdue Exhibit Car Over New York Central Lines.