THE BEE; OMAHA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1918.
Plans for the Great Farm Power Show of 1916
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The debiting societies that used to
discuss such questions as which is
the mother of the chicle, the hen that
laid the egg or the one that hatched
it might take up the problem whether
old earth has changed more than the
methodi of the cultivation of her
soil.
It wit a long step from the forked
etick to such rude implements as the
modern savage now employs. From
the power of 100 years ago to the
up-to-date tractor of Nebraska was
another.
Since the beginning of the use of
tractors in farm work Fremont has
been one of the cities where there
have been demonstrations to show
"Missourians" and others the supe
riority of the new method. This
year the demonstration will be from
August 7 to 11. Seven others in
the middle west or south are an
nounced between July 17 and Sep.
tember 8.
There were successful demonstra
tions In Fremont in 1913, and again
in 1914 and 1915 under the auspices
of Tha Twentieth Centu.-y Farmer. In
none of the various other demonstra
tions has there been the interest or
the attendance at Fremont. One rea
son for this if the geographical loca
tion of the city. No town is closer
to the center of the great wheat and
corn belt, and perhaps nowhere could
be found men with the zest of the
head) of the Commercial club of that
city in carrying through the many
necessary details in connection with
The Twentieth Century Farmer' big
enterprise.
The necessity of a tractor on a big
farm Is too apparent to require
further argument. Farm help is be
coming yearly scarcer, and more un
certain. As the soil becomes partial
ly exhausted near the top deeper
plowing becomes essential. And,
above all, perhaps, Is the element of
time. Like the early morning and
late afternoon rushes on the street
cars in our. cities, work on the land
cannot wait, if the greatest profit is
to be obtained, The time elapsing be
tween plowing and planting must be
shorter. So, too, most there be greater
expedition t the time of harvest.
ThJre has been toe. much waste in
the put . The nse of the tractor will
save much of such misspent energy
in the future. The tractor is not eat
ing it head off in weather when
farm work is not possible. There is
a saving not only in men, but in
horses and mulea.
The countries that lead In agricul
ture are the ones that must carry
the white' man's burden- And in the
fierce competition of the present day
the latest, most-improved machinery
must be employed. Then ire por
tions of the world where eld men,
children, and, still more frequently,
women are yoked sometimes together
sometimes to animals, in the work
of cultivating the soil, as well as at
the time of harvest. But they are not
in the competitive class.
, The tractor will do the ' work of
many horses and mules at much less
expense. It never take fright and
run away, With proper lubrication
a machine will last for years. It is
steady, reliable and powerful, and,
according to demand, pull from one
or two to twenty plow. It will work
when the broiling hot tun of July or
August makes toil by animals almost
imnossible. i And that is the time
when much of the land ought to be
torn up for the fall-aown grain. The
machine should be a boon to the
. southerner, where summer lasts nine
months of the year, and much of the
negro labor is to absolutely shiftless
and unreliable.
. Under the old regime the plowing
of a section of land was only the be
sinning. It all had to be harrowed,
and frequently a heavy storm neces
sitated long intervals between jobs.
Sometimes the ground should nave
been olowed again, it was so hard.
With the tractor the disc or harrow
may be hitched to the plow as a
trailer sometimes also a roller, thus
bringing much closer the time for
uuttins in the seed.
In silo filling the tractor is ready
for service again. It may be used in
this work as in the others, eo-ooera-
tively, a number of farmers owning
the cutter and with the use of the
tractor accomplishing the work with
greater (acuity and speed.
Time and labor are saved, too, at
threshing time. Instead of hiring
a traveling crew, the farmer nuts his
tractor into service. As is well
known, the threshing machine with
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neyed about over the wheat belt,
stopping a week or more, as was nec
essary, on one farm, in the new
order of things there is co-operation
again among the farmers, the tractor
being owned at home, and only the
threshing machine needs to be car
ried about the country. Not only
are fewer men and teams used now
to haul the grain to the elevators,
but time is saved by the decreased
number of trips necessary in going
over the land. The tractor hauls a
number of loaded wagons at ont time
to the nearest market place.
In baling hay, too, power is re
quired. The tractor and hay press
are taken together to the field, and
. after the timothy, clover or alfalfa
lias been raked into windrows, the
tractor is of immeuie asfistanre in
Retting it into the required shape
for market. With this added service
there is opportunity to save much of
the straw that his hitherto been
wasted. This is now utilized by the
baler and tractor, working in co-operation.
Some of the material is
left on the field to be spread and
bnrned for a fertilizer, but a large
portion can be baled and taken to
the barns to be need for winter bed
ding. In the fall the tractor can be
used for preparing the ground for
the fall-sown grain, after the corn
is all husked and the time ha come
again for putting in the teed.
Grain can be ground, too. in winter
time by the tractor. Alfalfa can be
turned into meal by the big machine.
It can be used, too, in pumping water
for the house and stock, and perhaps
100 other ways the new "toy" can
bit made to pay for its keep. Not the
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least of these possibly, is its utiliza
tion in road making, when spring
time eomes again.. Better highways
are becoming yearly more and more
of a necessity, and the same economy
of time and energy seen on the grain
field can be obtained by the use at
spare moments or hours, of this) labor
saving device upon the roads.
The time was, at first, when the
tractor could be used only on the
biggest farms. It was a clumsy, awk
ward machine to manage. But im
provements in the engine, the cutting
down in the size, as well as in the
cost, have made the tractor available
and more and more a necessity upoi
farms of ISO to 300 acres. . Like the
variations in the use of the automo
bile for pleasure there have come
more practical and less expensive
motors for the farm.
When the tractor is used in farming
operations, however, certain changes
must be made in many features of
the work. It will be found advantag
eous to have fields longer and nar
rower than formerly. It is not so
easy to turn a tractor on a corner as
when a mule is the motive power. To
use land profitably, therefore, many
farmers grow crops of hay about their
plowed crops. It is also true that
the tractor will not climb a hill as
well as it can descend one, though
the argument that they can not be
used on rolling land Is baseless. There
is a limit to the amount of a tractor's
power, and sometimes some of the
plows have to be taken off when the
machine is sent up too steep a hilt.
It is true, too, that though the trac
tor can not be scared and does not
have to be watered or fed, it can not
be whipped into greater effort.
The use of more machinery in agri
culture will keep more boys on the
farm that might have gone away to
the cities to become failures, incom
petent or criminals, from their in
aptitude for their changed surround
ings. It may, too, occasionally keep
budding genius from blossom, and
some men that might have been law
yers, poets, politicians and editors
will be only happy husbandmen.
The writer worked on a farm in hit
boyhood. He remembers only too
well the motive power in plowing a
small stony patch of New Hampshire
land full of roots. While one boy or
man drove "lack and Snerk" th
other held the plow. There were tre
mendous shocks when the plow point
nu a atone, mining ine sparks tly on
a dark day. There were strenuous lifts
at the ends of furrows or at corners,
where the plow had to be carried at
arm's length, perhaps for several feet
lo many who had such experience
TWENTIETH CENTURY FARMER WORKING FORCE AT THE TRACTION SHOW.
the farming of the present day would
seem almost like fun. There were
rests in the work, yes, when "Speck"
began to pant, because being faster
than hia mate, he bore the brunt of
the burden. It teemed, too, as if this
ox learned to pant unnecessarily, be
cause of the short respite he realized
he would get
Such waa old time farming. Then
came the riding plow and later the
gang plow. Now comes the tractor,
and who can tell what the inventor
of the future will devise to give us
something better?
Fremont Prosperity
At the Postoffice
Optimism Is in the air in Fremont.
Business is generally gobd. But
there is substantial basis for this
feeling. Nowhere is any better proof
found of prosperity than in the post
office, where N. W. Smails officiates
in a pretty, stone, well-appointed
building. The assistant postmaster
is F. W. Fuhlredt and the superin
tendent, L. A. Thompson.
Ten carriers look out for the city's
mail; nine clerks and four rural car
riers. Two janitors are employed.
Only last month an additional clerk
was allowed by Uncle Sam, the first
addition for five years
The postoffice receipts for 1915
were $55,947.23; for 1914 the figures
were only $47,057.73. money orders
issued for 1915 amounted to $108,-
570.66; for 1914 the corresponding fig
ures were SlWi.Uoi.SU; money orders
paid in 1915 amounted to $85,744.59;
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