THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY. AUGUST 9. 1917.
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ENGINEERS MEET
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Men Who ELS.gn the Giant En-,
gines Talk Over Plans
to Make Them
Standard.
One of the big events that will
make the Fremont tractor demonstra
tion this week a truly national affair
is the series of meetings for tractor
ngineers to be held under the
tuspices of the Society of Automotive
Engineers, the national organization
handling tractor activities.
The first meeting of the engineers
was neia Wednesday morning at
9:30 in the erand ball room ot the
Hotel Pathfinder, when tractor
standardization was considered The
tractor division of the Society of Au
tomotive Engineers standards com
mittee has already standardized a
number of tractor subjects, among
them being tractor drawbar and belt
power rating, belt speed, height of
tractor hitch and plowing speed. All
these were discussed at the stand
ardization meeting. This work is vi
tally important from both the manu
facturers' and users' standpoint.
Harry L. Horning, general manager
Df the Waukesha Motor company, is
chairman of the tractor standards di
vision and presided at the meeting.
The windup of the Society of Au
tomotive Engineers' program will
take place Thursday evening at Ma
ionic hall, when an entire session
will be devoted to the tractor service
problem. Fred C. Glover, vice presi
dent of the Emerson-Brantingham
company, will be in the chair. Dent
Parrett, president of the Parrett Trac
tor company, will present a paper,
L. D. Duntley, Emerson-Brantingham
company; Fred P. Steele, Lyons-Atlas
company; S. C. Turkenkoph, Mo
line Plow company, and service rep
resentatives of other prominent trac
tor companies, will discuss the sub
ject. French Government Buys
1,500 of the Bull Tractors
The Bull tractor people, again
prominent in the Fremont Tractor
ihow, are claiming that their tractor
Is so arranged as to self-guilding that
it will plow an endless distance with
out a guide. "It will follow a furrow
from here to China," said A. A. Arn
old, i
The tractor is a three-wheeler and
weighs 4,900 pounds. The French
government has taken a great liking
to this type of machine and has jut
ordered 1,500 of them. The com
pany is now loading and snipping
the 1,500 machines in installments.
The French use them for plowing.
With most of the men at the front
in the trenches, the few men at home
are operating Bull tractors and go
ing from farm ta farm with them do
in the plowing. Farmers Tegister
w.ch the sovernme nfc' to have their
pbwing done, and the plowman with!
in j iianur scl arounu 10 inc various
f. rms as fast as he can.
Avery Standardizes Five
Sizes of Its Tractors
The Avery Kerosene tractors are
made in a standardized design. The
Avery people believe they have found
the last word in tractor making1, so
they have standardized their make,
and are making the same type of
tractor in five different sizes. The
designs arc exactly identical. Fann
ers may look over the three sizes and
pick the one best suited to their all
round needs, according to the size
and nature of their farms.
This tractor has a removable inner
cylinder waH, which is especially
hardened and tempered to do its wor
and give its service. By making this
separate inner wall, it was possible
to give it . a better temper than it
would be possible to give he entire
cylinder. When the cylinder wall be
comes worn, all that has to be done
is to get a new inner wall, insert this
and go ahead. The crank shaft l
this tractor is also a feature, for the
Avery people hold that no owner of
an Avery ever broke a crank shaft.
Here is ? Radiator
Not Injured by Freezing
A radiator so constructed as not
to be damaged by freezing and at the
same time to give the greatest cool
ing efficiency is the Perfex radiator
demonstrated at the Fremont power
farming demonstration. The core has
a slit at the. top and bottom of the air
fanage, which gives it a large flexa
bility and prevents damage from
freezing. The manufacturers claim for
this radiator no boiling and no evap
oration. No radiator is stronger than
its core and no core in stronger than
its joints, the manufacturers of Per
fex hold, and they point with pride
to the strength of core and joints in
this one. The slit mentioned above is
placed there to allow for expansion
and contraction. v
A contest is on at. the Perfex booth.
A Ford car is to be given away in
this contest at the close of the show.
Visitors at the booth register their
namees aand thus get a chance at the
Ford.
HEAD OF PHENIX TRUCKS j
VISITS TRACTOR SHOW.
New Tractor Tears Up
Soil Instead of Packing It
With great claws on the drive
wheels like the claws of a chicken,
the Fageol tractor, one of the newer
designs, is attracting considerable at
tention on account of the oddity of
its appearance and on account of its
diminutive size. "The smallest trac
tor in captivity" is what its boosters
are calling it. With those terrible
claws it has a wonderful drawing
power, lhose claws agitate the sou
instead of packing it," said the dem-
Bates' Steel Mule Again
On the Job at Fremont
The Bates Steet Mule is on the
job again at the Fremont Tractor
show. The company is showing three
tractors this . . . One of them is
a new type with two crawlers and
two front whcc.j. it is equipped to
make very short turns, and it will
lug three iourtecn-inch plows through
heavy soil and have some power to
spare. Cast iron has been eliminated.
Nickel steel shafting is used. Hard
cut pears and Hyatt roller bearings
are a feature.
The other two Steel Mules shown
are made with extension control, so
that a man may sit on a plow or har
vester and control that and his trac
tor from one seat. These will draw
three fourtet n-inch plows.
"We have the fundamental patents
for driving any three-wheel, four
wheel, or crawler tractor from tht
seat of an implement," said Harry
Bates. "Our double crawler is mads
for hillside work or orchard work.
Our sales this year thua far ran thre
times what they were last yean to
date."
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The standing of-Nebraska as
field for trucks and tractors is being
evidenced by the list of manufac
turers who have attended the Fre
mont Tractor show.
Mr. R. D. O wings, president of the
Phenix Truck Makers, Inc.; has ar
rived to have a hand, personally, in
the orginization work in Nebraska,
The Pheonix people have recently
closed a large contract with the C. W.
Francis Truck company of Omaha.
onstrator. "Too many tractors pack
the soil and tend to make it hard.
There is much complaint on that
point. I his is one of the things trac
tors must get away from, and we feel
that we have got away from it. The
Fageol tractor weighs only 1,750
pounds. Small but mighty, it draws
a two-gang piow ana attracts its
crowds of spectators.
Grading Camp Cook Held
For Violation of Mann Act
Paul White, a cook employed by a
Union Pacific grading gang, was ar
rested by the federal authorities for
violation of the Mann act. Mrs. Min
nie Briscoe, formerly of Blu; Rap
ids, Kan., is the complaining witness.
She says he took her from Iowa to
Wyoming and represented that she
was his wife, threatening to kill her
if she revealed their relations. She
worked as assistant cook with the
grading gangs. She is a dozen years
older than he.
Persistent Advertising Is the Road
to Success.
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WKen 1092 can of the same make average
27.15 miles on one gallon of gasoline each
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'"when 2040 cars of the same make average
29.04 on one gallon each
that car must be mechanically right.
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The figures cited are the certified scores
piled up in the historic Maxwell gasoline
economy contests of May and June.
They' were made by privately owned
Maxwell cars in actual daily use by the
purchasers.
Only the highest standard of efficiency in
engine, clutch, transmission every mechani
cal detail permitted the achievement of such
results.
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Touring Car $745
Roadtttr $74St 7ol Car fl09$t
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International Motor Cultivator
New International Harvester Products
to be seen at the '
1917 Fremont Tractor Demonstration
A REMARKABLY efficient new motor cultivator and two
new kerosene tractors, Mogul 10-20 and Titan 15-30,
make up the International Harvestor showing of 1917 models
at the Fremont demonstration this year.
The International Motor Cultivator is an entirely new departure. It
consists of a motor attached to the frame of a two-rowed pivot axle culti
vator. 'While cultivating, the operator does not have to watch the engine.
The machine is steered by the movement of the operator's feet in the or
dinary cultivation of the com. The motor drive wheels at the rear of the
gangs are locked in a straight-ahead position while the machine is going
down the field. At the end of the row the driver disengages the lock,
s turns the motor wheels to right or left, as desired, and the entire machine
pivots on one cultivator wheel, turning within its own length, to resume its
course down the next two rows.
By raising the cultivator teeth, this machine can be used as a power
plant for most field work requiring not. more than four good Worses. To
see the International motor cultivator in action is worth a trip to Fremont.
Don't mte.3 it.
The Mogul 10-20 is a later development of Mogul 8-16, the two-plow
kerosene outfit which made the hit of the year in 1916. The 10-20 is the
three-plow size of this model and has two ploughing speeds.
The Titan, 15-30, a four-plow tractor much improved on last year's
model, is the size and type for farms where the fields are large and the
belt work consists of running good sized machines, such as threshers
and huskers and shredders. This tractor is a desirable threshing engine
because it runs so steadily on variable loads.
The full line of International Harvester kerosene tractors to be shown at Fremont this year includes
the Mogul in 8-16, 10-20 and 12-25-H. P. sizes, and the Titan 10-20 and 15-30-H. P. sizes.
Other International Harvester products which will be on exhibition at headquarters or in the field
are the international motor cultivator, Deering and McCormick corn pickers, Low Corn King, Low
Cloverleaf, and Low 20th Century manure spreaders, and a very complete line of efficient tillage imple
ments. . .
Every farmer who attends this demonstration is cordially invited to visit the International head
quarters tent. Representatives will answer all your questions and see that you get full information, about
any machine in which you may be interested.
International Harvester Company of America
Mqgul 10-2041 P.
Titan IMO-a P.
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Omaha Concordia Council Bluffs Crawford Lincoln
Sioux City St. Joseph Tope&i
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Midwest Motor & Supply Co.
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2216-18 Farnam St. Omaha, Neb. Phone Tyler 2462
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The Standard of Quality
for Driving Tractors and Trucks
T INK-BELT "TT" Roller Chain illustrated is an established stand-
J- ard of the highest quality, for that all-important service of
transmitting power to the driving wheels of the tractor. It is designed and made to with-
stand the severest service, and the most difficult conditions under which any tractor can be
called upon to operate. It is made in the largest chain plant in the world, by skilled workmen,
with every modern facility to secure perfection. We have been chain makers for over 43 years
our "TT" Roller Chain is one of the results of our experience. From raw materia! to finished
product, every operation passes the most rigid inspection. Every foot of Link-Belt Holler Chain
is Guaranteed. That is why we put our trademark on every link. Look for it demand it! The
illustration shows Link-Bel "TT" Roller Chain on the International Harvester Co's Mogul. Write
to us for our recommendations, prices and deliveries.
Call at our booth at the Fremont Tractor Demonstration and the many rariout type of Link-Belt and
Roller Chains used on tractors and farm implements.
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PHILADELPHIA
CHICAGO
INDIANAPOLIS
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International
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