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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1916)
THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSD A Y,AUGUST3, 1916 Entertainment for All at the In-Plenty Tractor Show One of the good reasons for mak-1 hg- the date of the tractor how Au-1 gust 7-U was to get into the water melon season as early as possible. For there will, be lots of fun as well as a good deal of work connected with the big show. And some of the fan will come from eating the lus cious melons that grow in the out skirts of Fremont. Last year a barbecued ox was also on the program. While details are 'not yet arranged there is no reason to believe the preparations will be on a less elaborate scale than in previous years. -';' One thing is almost certain. There will be more room than last year. The grounds comprise 640 acres, but last year there was rain almost every day and there was nothing doing on a large section of that space unless one wanted to use high rubber boots. If coming events cast their shad ow before the ox for the barbecue will come, as last year, from the South Omaha stock yards, and coffee '. will be served by the German-American Coffee company. . There will be experts on every band to explain to greenhorns all about the big machines. All kinds of questions may be expected to be asked, from whether or not the trac tors are the same kind as are used in the European war, to whether it will take two or four horses to draw them. ' These tractor shows are like picnic parties in many respects, and after the day's work is done there will be lots of opportunity for good times and recreation. . 1 Last year there was a summer school one hour in the forenoon. The lecturer told just what the big ma chines would do and what they could not do. Me showed how the tractor should be operated. Then when lie had talked himself out, or the crowd thought he had, permission was given to ask questions. 1 hat would give one a chance to see that the lecturer had not run down at all. but could keep on talking all day and ni?ht if necessary. Women were ilmost per suaded that they could not plant a flower garden without a tractor, and the small children stopped playin horse and automobile and imitate their elders with some improvised toys that looked like the big ma' chines their daddies had come to buy it they .could find the cash or credit,' There was a time when' these dem onstrations were contests. But that way of conducting them was a dead failure. Contests' are all right in old' fashioned fire engine company meets, when the ambition of each contend ing party is to . play the biggest stream, but in tractor shows the ob- ject is not to beat the other fellow in speed or endurance so much as to sell machines. Of course no one , wanted to buy old fire engines, but there are hundreds of farmers at the shows to buy tractors as soon as their shin comes in. if not before. . For it is not always the fastest or the most enduring machine that a man wants. There are tractors for every kind and condition of man. One wants a machine that will last a life time and he wants a big one. His neighbor wants a cheap affair that will last him until he gets enough money to get a better one. One ' farmer has a big farm that can ac . commodate all kinds of big equip ".. ment the bigger the better; another hat only a small farm and it going to Manitoba, or somewhere, next year, and wants a machine that he can tend by freight for not more than it cost '' In the beginning. Oh, yes, there are plenty of good reasons why the dem onstration plan it superior to the con test plan. Every day there are dynamite ex hibitions. In these the lecturer shows how to plant trees by dynamite. The idea is that in this way the ground is not tramped down so hard as is the case when the hole is dug, for there ' is not so hard a wall for the tender rootlets to break through. Ditches are also dug by dynamite and all such suggestions as these go with the trac tor demonstrations. There is always a parade one day. The "animals" are all out in their cages, or well guarded; One day is devoted to Nebraska alone, another to Iowa and Kansas, or perhaps to the two states together, and there are other days for representatives ot sucn utri as siiv show interest. The im plement dealers, of course, have a day nf thrir own. and the Ak-Sar-Ben men have a day to themselves in nuking things hum. Last year the school children were drilled in a singing test. nH there was a sort of oantomime of h rivil war and intervening history v in which the veterans of '61 to '65 fig ured. The Redpatb chautauqua was there, too, with a force of speakers, and there was plenty of good music hv ihr hinds and various orchestras. The Fourth regiment Nebraska Na tional guard had an encampment near the srounds last year and there were other side shows too numerous to mention. The hot tamale sellers, the peanut venders, the newspaper youngsters and the politicians will an oe mere, for it is presidential year this year, and besides preparedness upon the farm there will be appeals to be pre pared to fight the combined hosts of Europe after they get done slaughter ing each otner. - The first tractor show on record was held in Nebraska. It was held in Omaha during the big land show of 19U. The credit for the original idea-of demonstrating the tractor, then almost unknown in its applica- tion to farming, belongs to E. A. Hil debrand, who with tha late R. H. Woodruff, advertising manager , of the Twentieth Century Farmer, and H. E. Dimond managed and directed that part of the show. The next year there was much talk of a tractor show in Omaha, but there did not Hem to be any ground avail able and the event was postponed. Then in una permission to use ine Coad ranch near Fremont was ob tained. George Wolt, at tnat time mayor of Fremont, became deeply in ' terested in the enterprise and it was decided to hold the enterprise under the joint auspice:: of the Fremont Commercial club and the Twentieth Century Farmer. The slogan at that time was "Let the buyer be better posted." Twenty three manufactures entered in that ex- . hibttion, with thirty-nine tractors. There was great enthusiasm and it was decided to make the demonstra- .'. tion an annual affair. The next year the show was held with twenty-seven manufactures present and forty-nine jM ,vi.i!W '.Ha. I, - Ji ( ' If Li ALL SORTS OF POWER FOR If I ' -Vj; TRACTION. tr 'is J trartnr The urounda were at tnat time enlarged by taking three other farms. The farmer gets a demonstration ot what the tracto. can do in such a lo cality as the one in which he bves. Of course, an expert can run a ma chine where a green farmer would make a failure ot it; I he farmer is allowed to see for himself just what can be done with the expert out ot the Tihere are certain rules that are adhered to in the demonstrations. For instance, in the public demonstra tions only one machine of any one, make is allowed on the ground at one lime. ' i ni ruic 10 (ikiui gimuicu to prevent crowding. However, if a manufacturer has several machines he can exhibit one one day, another the next and so on. ! .With the widespread use of trac tors the time may come in a few years when demonstrations like this will be superfluous, except for the pleasure enjoyed at such outinau. But for some time vet there will be good shows at Fremont and the one next year wilt in all probability be bigger and better than tne one ot mo.' Those who don't take in the Fre mont demonstration will surely- re gret it, especially if they are inter ested in the use of tractors. Kerosene Engine Finds Favor rm 1. M' ' ' m wtimiiiiimiiiiiwi' iiiiiiiiiiii'iM For Foot Comfort during the "Tractor Meet' ECONOMY STORE. R. P. TURNER & CO. 414 Main St. Fremont, Neb. llllil call at the I mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmam mummimsmmmmMammmmmmmmBmwawMmsm - . ... e The Best Place cn Earth To Buy WHEN THE LADY DRIVES. time the price of gasoline is a great source of worry because of the vast Jiuantities consumed by motors. The armer who wishes power for his tractor is not worried, because there is now a complete line . of farm en gines and tractors that are . guaran teed to bum kerosene as successfully as any gasoline engine will burn gaso line. .- - It it claimed, however, that the ker osene engine to be practical is bnilt on the horizontal order because they do not depend on the splash system of oiling, but are lubricated by mechan ical oilers. It is said that upright en gines cannot burn kerosene on account ot their splash system ot oiling. When The remarkable difference between the price of gasoline and keroseae has caused the farmers of the country to sit up and take notice of the fuel situation. The latest available sta tistics show that the average price the country over for gasoline is 19.1 and 8.5 cents for kerosene. At the same a charge; of kerosene is taken into the cylinder and is exoloded there is a small portion that does not explode but which falls down into the oil chamber. This kerosene soon dis solves the lubricating qualities of the oil and the upright motor is without lubrication. On the horizontal motor the lubrication comes from a mechani cal oiler which is operated from the cam shaft, insuring a constant, flow of oil to all farts of the motor as long as the engine is in operation. 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