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U.P. Agricultural Improvement Car Here, Rossville, Kansas
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U. P. AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT CAR HERE TUESDAY
Four Kansas State College faculty members will be with the agricul¬tural car of the Union Pacific rail¬road when it tours Kansas March 19 to 30. They are L.L. Compton, secretary-treasurer of the Kansas Crop Improvement, association; Shannon Nicholson, Compton's assistant; Lu¬ther Willoughby, extension agrono¬mist, and Claude King, extension plant pathologist.
The railroad car will stop for pro¬grams at Wamego, Rossville, Marysville, Sabetha and Hiawatha, in this section of Kansas.
Agricultural specialists will discuss seed production ,seed treatment, and Kansas seeds for Kansas farms at earth of the stops. County agricultural agents are to be program chairmen at stops in their counties.
Charles W. Manke, agricultural agent for the railroad in Kansas, has suggested that FFA, vocational agri¬culture, veteran trainees other or¬ganized groups attend morning ses¬sions to leave afternoons open to the farmers.
On three previous trips the agricultural improvement car traveled 30,000 miles to 271 communitoies [sic] and had a total of 53,000 visitors.
The car will sit near the Union Pacific station in Rossville next Tuesday, March 27th. Every farmer in this and surrounding communities are given a cordial welcome to attend
Four Kansas State College faculty members will be with the agricul¬tural car of the Union Pacific rail¬road when it tours Kansas March 19 to 30. They are L.L. Compton, secretary-treasurer of the Kansas Crop Improvement, association; Shannon Nicholson, Compton's assistant; Lu¬ther Willoughby, extension agrono¬mist, and Claude King, extension plant pathologist.
The railroad car will stop for pro¬grams at Wamego, Rossville, Marysville, Sabetha and Hiawatha, in this section of Kansas.
Agricultural specialists will discuss seed production ,seed treatment, and Kansas seeds for Kansas farms at earth of the stops. County agricultural agents are to be program chairmen at stops in their counties.
Charles W. Manke, agricultural agent for the railroad in Kansas, has suggested that FFA, vocational agri¬culture, veteran trainees other or¬ganized groups attend morning ses¬sions to leave afternoons open to the farmers.
On three previous trips the agricultural improvement car traveled 30,000 miles to 271 communitoies [sic] and had a total of 53,000 visitors.
The car will sit near the Union Pacific station in Rossville next Tuesday, March 27th. Every farmer in this and surrounding communities are given a cordial welcome to attend
Creator
Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas
Publisher
Rossville Community Library
Date
March 22, 1951
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newspaper clipping
Identifier
RCL0312
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