THE HKK: OMAHA, TlirFLSDAY. AlKJUST ft,
Tractor Demonstration Thoroughly Useful to Buyer and Seller
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AgooJ.cIean, deep furrow
.1 j t!tlon on record mi held
V 1 I In Nebnuka. ThU wu during
r mmi i tno big Inn J ahow in Omh.
and the trartor wai (hen In
lt Infancy. There m'ere five
maohlnca demonatrated, and th'y wurked
. on a small lot of land, consltln of
about five acre, riicht la the heart of
the city. The credit for the original idra
. ii f demonstrating the tractor, then al
mont unknown In Ita application to farm
ing, belonga to K, A. liildnhrand, who,
, with the laio R. 11. Woodruff, at that
i timo advrrtUing manager of the Twrn-
tiMh Century Farmer, and 11. E. Dlmond,
managed and directed that part of the
. land how.
Mr. ilildehrand and hla co-worknra
felt that thU dumonalratlon, small
though It was, had proved of value to
alt concerned, and offorta were made to
hold another demonstration the following
yenr, but no plot of p round seemed to
be available for that purpoae and It was
necessary to abandon the Idea,
The next year, 181S, permission to us
the Coad rsn. near KTemont, consist
Ing of something like 0 acres, was se
cured. Usyor Ueorge Wola and K. B.
Schneider of Fremont became deeply In-
; tereated In the enterprise, and It was de-
' rldod to hold the demonstration under
the joint auspices of the Fremont Com-
' merclal club and. the Twentieth Century
' Farmer. Unfortunately, before the open
ing of the show, Mr. Schneider died, so
that he was unable to wltnosa the suo-
"eeaaful culmination of the plans which be
had played so Important a fart in formu-
' la ting.
At this time the National Power Farm
1 Ing Demonstration, was regularly organ
J utod, with this slogan, "Let the buyer be
better posleJ," whluh gives the keynote
, to the purpose of the demonstrations. The
officers were as follows: R. 11. Wood
ruff, general manager; T. F. Bturgesa,
publicity manager; A. K. lllldebrand,
' field manager, and K. K. Foster, secra
; tary. It was felt that these men were
particularly competent 'to manage an af
fair of this kind, on account of the
previous experience they had had In
; exposition work. Mr. Woodruff anJ
Mr. Kildebrand had the experience
. of atnglng tho first demonstration' of
tiariurs ever held at the land show In
l'.'Il. Mr. Fturgt had been manager of
the National Corn exposition held at
; Omaha In 1907-Oa and 19W-TO, and sl took
a leading part in the management of the
land show In 111. Mr. HUdebrand was
. In charge of the boys' and girls' depart
. ment of the National Corn exposition
; both both years It was held in Omaha,
: and ws superintendent of the machinery
iepartment of the National Coru exposi
tion the fnllowing year, when It was
located at Columbus, O.
In the 1913 domonatration there were
twcnty-Uirce , manufacturers entered,
showing thirt'y-nlM tractors. Titer was
an attendance of about tO.Ouo, wl Ich was
roiiaidered at that time a wonderfully
yood crowd for siKh an affair, and great
tnlhualasm was shown.
Cm August 17 to ii, 114, the second an
nu'il dcmonstratliHi wss ht id. The man
vcement was somewiiat hsndicapped at
firnt by the illness and death of the
manager, IL H. Woodruff. Ills ponition
wjs finally filled hy C. C. Rosewatvr,
who had been In charge of the Omaha
Land show In 1910 and also the land
show In 1M1, and who had been a mem
ber of the hoard of managers of the Na
tional Corn exposition both years It was
held In Omaha. 11. E. Dlmond waa made
asKiatant manager. The other officers
remained the same as the previous year.
There wer twenty-seven manufactur
ers present, with forty-nine complete out
fit. The attendance mounted up to 83,
00. constating mainly of farmers deeply
interested In this new form of power
ss applied to their uae and coming from
widely different and dtntant states. The
government sent representatives to learn
what could be learned there. Several new
features were Introduced end tha
lemonMratlnn was an even areater mn.
ceas than-the previous one. There were
three adjoining farms placed at the din- '
posal of the management this second
year In the vicinity of Fremont, the Col
son, Mlddaugh and Turner farms, com
prising In all about en aores.
The officers of the third National
Power Farming Demonstrat Inn im' r
C. Roeewater, president; T. F. Bturgesa,
puDiicity director; A. E. Hlldevrand.
general manager; H. EL Dlmond, assis
tant general manager, and R. R. Foater,
secretary.
Th 1916 demonstration will be an af.
fair of greater magnitude than th pro
moters themselves would have iIimiI i
hop for when they mad their first
plana three vsars aa-o. There win
over 400 additional acres In use, making
a total or more than 1,000 acre. Forty
two manufacturers have antered. and
ther will be over 100 complete outfit
on wi ground. Th management re
main th same a last year and feet
competent to handle thl mammoth ex
position, as they have watched It grow
from a small affair to th present date.
Arrangements a. a belna "made tnr
of th blggvat gatherlnga of people that
n ever oeen held In th atat of Ne
braska and preparations are belnv mA
on an enormous seal.
In saying that th National Power
Farming Demonstrations are th. t
demonstrations of tractor ever held In
me woria, not that th word Demon
strations" and not "contests" Is used
Ther have been tractor contest held
previously, but thes have been dlscou
tlnuod because they have not been a
decided success. At Winning In 1910, ill
nd mi ther wer tractor contest held.
Not many manufacturers wer entered
and thes contests proved of more In
terest to th manufacturer themselves
than to th farmer who saw them.
What th fsrmer want la a demon
stration of what th tractor Is and what
It can do on his farm, under the condi
tion that prevail in th section in
which h live. What th contest showed
waa more the ability of the driver than
th adaptability of their machine. The
farmer doe not car what a tractor can
do when It I miutaged by an expert. He
want to know what bis machine can do
when he Is running It himself In his own
fields. This .1 th need that the demon
stration' was designed to meet
The way th contest waa managed, each
machine was told where it was to run
snd what it wss to do. Th condition,
were mailt th same for all tractor, and
might easily be more adapted to th
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ability of on machine than some of th
th other. The tractor that performed
I he best. In the opinion of the Judge,
undor the stated condition was
award id th medal, regardless of th
fact that under other condition as fre
quently met on the farm, some other
machine might havo performed a well
or poanlbly better. Moreover, no con
sideration as given to some feature of
th tractor that might hv recom
mended tham to farmer In certain sec
tion a Needles to tay, ther wer dis
cussion and recriminations, sora manu
facturer claiming that condition were
so mad that their machine worked
under a decided disadvantage. Th man
ager and Judge were plaoed In th posi
tion of an umpire at a bail gam, with
a little chance of satisfying th con
testant and th farmer pmeent as th
average umpire has of satisfying the
opposing team and the fans with his
dedal- ns.
When the Twentieth Century Farmer
people conceived the Idea jf a demonstra
tion, they were Inspired by a belief that
thn fsrmer himself l and ehwlrt be th4
vltlmat Judge of th practicability of the
tractor and that he should be given an
opportunity at observing what each
make of ti actor can At inder any and
al ordinary conditions. They Relieved
that ru machinist or outside biirlness
man can presume to say wht ii Is the
test tractor for the, farmer to vse, and
that what I the bt tractor for a man
on on farm and under certain conditions
would not he th machine that
would be test for another farmer, who
mlcht operate under entirely different
conditions. - For this reatn, th contest
feature had no place In the plans made
for tho National Power Farming Demon
strations. They vera to be stri tly de
monstration of th adaptability and
practicability of the machine entered.
To be sure, ther are hard and fast
rules by which th entrant are governed.
For Inatsnce, in the public domonatra
tion but on machine of any make Is
, allowed on th field at one. Tills rule
was made to prevent crowding of the
grounds and Is rUldly enforcod. How
ever, If a company manufactures three
or four machines alt may be entered and
ny en of them used In the public
demonstration, or one used one day,, an
! other th next, another the next, and so
on. Moreover, tim each morning 1 al
lowed for private demonstrations. Space
Is allotted and If anyone expresses a de
sire to seo thes different tractor at work
the manufacturer is permitted to demon
strata th power of hi machine to hi
prospective customer In any way he or
they may deslr.
In thl way If a man goes to th tractor
show with th intention of finding out
what machln I best adapted to us on
hi farm he can attend the publlo demon
stration first. Here he can eliminate th
machine that have feature that do not
appeal to htm or that are not adapted to
use under his conditions. He may then
ehooe those that seem best suited to his
needs and look those over carefully. He
may talk to th manufacturers, hearing
what they hav to say and benefiting by
their explanation; he may then attend
the tractor short course and learn some
thing about th working part of the
tractor and Ita engine; after thl he may
ask the firm to demonstrat to htm
whether or not their machine can do
certain thing that he consider it desira
ble for a tractor to do in order to per
form th work he ha In view. H doe
not hav to take anyone's advice, but I
able to decide for htmself after actual
witnessing of th tractor at work. If Ii
make a mlstak In a purchase, then ha
can hav only hla own Judgment t
blame, for h ha certainly had unusual
opportunities of knowing exactly what
h U buying.
Not all of th farmer who attend th
demonstration are actually purchaser,
or vn prospective purchasers, of trac
tors. Many of them never expect to own
a tractor and do not really believe that
they are practical farm machine. They
com to scoff, but at previous demon
stration many of th scoffers went horn
convinced that they, rather than the ma
chines, were wrong, and some of them
are coming back this year with the firm
Intention of investing in th beat and.
most useful machine that their money
can buy. Then, too, many who are al
ready tractor owner com to learn more
about th operation and management of
their machines.
13vry year sees a great change In th
make-up of the tractor demonstrated.
Th first year they were all big ma
chines, highly useful on the bl grain
farm or ranch, but not very practical for
the use of the average mlddie-wcst
fermor. The next year saw the advent
of a number of small machine. o roada
that they did not require the assistance
of so many men to work them; they
would not pull so many plows, but neither
did they occupy so much space nor rep
resent such a large outlay of money; they
were within the reach of the average
farmer and much better adapted to hi
uae.
This year there will still be large
tractors. There la a demand for them on
the big grain farm, and In other lines of
work, and they will probably always con
tlnue to be manufactured. Bvery manu
facturer, however, has seen the hand
writing on tho wall. He knows that In
tho making of the large tractor alone he
is only filling the needs of a small per
centage of possible tractor users, and he
Is bidding for the business of the ordinary
middle-west farmer. Every firm will
have a small or medium tractor on dis
play. These are the practical little ma
chines that will some day be seen on
every farm.
It has long been the belief of The
Twentieth Century Farmer that some day
the tractor will be considered as Indls- j
penslble on the IGO-acre farm, aa the
team of draft horses or mules now If ,
This belief waa the foundation of th '
tractor demonstration Idea. To the end
that the farmer might know what the '
manufacturer ha to offer and that the
manufacturer might know what th needs
of the farmer were, these demonstrations
were undertaken and have In this way j
proved a wonderful success. In the be
ginning of these demonstratlona, tho
manufacturer was woefully Ignorant of
the problems confronting the farmer on ,
; the grain belt farm, and the farmer was
; Just aa ignorant of what the tractor waa
and of Ita poaaibtllUe as an aid In hi
work. At the preaent time the manu
facturer know Just what trie farmer
wants, and he la making machine that
fill these want aa nearly a it la possi
ble for th mind of man to contrive. Th
farmer know exactly what machines are
on the market; he la well Informed aa
to what these different machine can do
and aa well equipped to discus their
comparative adaptability a to dlncusa
th comparative merit of Holateln or
Jersey. For thl mutual understanding,
I wnicn is me oam oi co-opcra-uun nu
successful business, the national power
demonstrations at Fremont have been
largely responsible.
So successful hav these demonstra
tion been that they are now being held
throughout the country. Illinois, Kansas,
California, Oklahoma, South Dakota and
a number of other state are staging
tractor demonstrations this year along
the same lines as the Fremont show. In
fact, the managers hav approached the
management of the Fremont show for
information a to tho best methods of
procedure and tn every case th dem
onstration are going to be along th
sama line of the national power farm
ing domonatration. Thl widespread
diffusion of knowledge of th tractor
ahould reault In th tractor coming Into
It own with great rapidity, and before
many years hav passed we look to see
a tractor for every kind of farm and
every farm with ita tractor in actual and
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