Reprinted With Permission

The following article first appeared in Kansas History Volume 10 Spring 1987 Number 1. It was written by Constance Libby Menninger and is reprinted here with her permission and the permission of the Kansas State Historical Society.

Constance Libby Menninger presented this article at the Kansas City Mini Meet on November 15, 1997.

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The Gospel of Better Farming According to Santa Fe.

• Part 1 Pipe Creek, special agricultural demonstration trains, 1905, 1906, 1909, 1912, 1916 "Hessian Fly Special", World War I, "Cow, Sow and Hen Special", "The Lady Special", Jarrell, United States Railroad Administration, Earth, Kansas State Agricultural College (KSAC), "Dairying", "Farm Poultry", Newton, Holstein, Ayrshire, Guernsey, Jersey.
• Part 2 New York Central Lines, "Better Sire & Dairy Demonstration Train", advance publicity, "farm side-line trinity - the cow, the sow and the hen.", Kansas City Livestock Exchange, Dr. C. W. Campbell, "Better Sires Train", Manhattan, electric lights, Delco batteries, Public Utilities Commission of Kansas, Fred Harvey, Business Car 23, El Dorado, secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, J.C.Mohler, Topeka, Elkhart, Garnett, Lyons, Sylvia, William Allen White, "Lady Special", Emporia, Winfield Daily Courier
• Part 3 1923, "Safer Farming Special", Attica to Wellington, Mulvane to Coats, Englewood to Medicine Lodge, Dodge City to Garden City, Scott City to Great Bend, Jetmore to Greatbend, livestock & wheat, radio broadcasting, Gov. Jonathan N. Davis, Alexander, Southwestern Wheat Improvement Association (SWIA) Topeka Daily Capital
• Part 4 1925, better seed wheat campaign, Kansas Wheat Queen, Kansas Crop Improvement Association, "The Opportunity Special", Miss Vada Watson, Garden City, Abilene, Kansas City Times, Barber County Index, Hutchinson, Sublette, Finney, "Wheat Festival Day", Pratt, Tribune
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7
• Part 8
• Part 9 "Better Farm Homes Special"
• Footnotes

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