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Better Farming Train (Saskatchewan)
The Better Farming Train was an agriculture demonstration train which toured Saskatchewan, Canada, between 1914 and 1922.
==Background==
The idea of special trains to promote better agricultural practices was developed in Canada in the early years of the 20th century. In 1904, special trains brought farmers to the Dominion Experimental Farm in Indian Head to demonstrate farming techniques. In 1906, a Special Seed Train ran throughout the Canadian Prairies to advertise the Seed Act and warn of the dangers of weeds.
In 1913, the Government of Canada passed the Agricultural Instruction Act "to assist the provinces by grants of money to carry on educational and instructional work for the benefit and encouragement of agriculture".〔 Two trains called "Better Farming Specials" operated in Manitoba in 1913, demonstrating farm equipment, live stock and home economics.
A more substantial "Better Farming Train" was devised by William Motherwell of the Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Motherwell, William Richard (1860– 1943) )〕 Motherwell was firm believer in scientific agriculture and had the enthusiastic support of William Rutherford, a former Deputy Minister of Agriculture and then Dean of Agriculture at the newly formed University of Saskatchewan at Saskatoon.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=RUTHERFORD, WILLIAM JOHN )〕 Rutherford offered the full assistance of the College of Agriculture to promote the latest information on agricultural research and how it could assist farmers. The train itself was provided at no cost by the Canadian Pacific Railway and operating expenses were borne by the grant.
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