Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-30
MACHINERY DISPLAY LARGE.
Noisiest Place About Iowa State Fai
Contains Much That is Novel,

DeS Moines, Aug. 5o.-The gasoline
engine. which takes the place of the
hired man and the hired girl and can
do more work than both of them to-
gether. holds the center of the stage
among the machinery exhibits at the
state fair this year. Its fitful chugging
can be heard in almost every part of
the grounds over the whir of the ma
chinery for which it furnishes motive
power.
More than dozen firms have eN-
hibits of gasoline engines and they
come in all shapes and sizes from little
ones of only a few horse power to big
ones which will run a sawmill or a
farm electric lighting plant. The ex-
hibitors have them attached to cream
separators, pumps. corn grinders. hay
balers, srindstones, woodsaws and
numerous other machines for which
horses or hand power We're formerly
utilized. 1t will be a mighty conserva-
tive farmer who leaves the fair with
out having bought gasoline engine or
decided to buy one if his farm ism t
already equipped with that labor saw
ing device.
AS memory of the lightning rod graft
fades from the minds of the people the
legitimate manufacturers of those
much abused home protectors are
rapidly increasing their business. Fully
half a dozen of them have exhibits at
the fair this year. where demonstrators
use manufactured lightning to show how
a bolt works its destruction, and also
how to ward it off by means of a light
ming rod. The manufacturers of the
new school are doing everything in
their power to efface the memory of the
glib statesmen who f1eeced hundreds OF
Iowa farmers out of their hard earned
dollars and brought the lightning rod
business into disrepute. Even yet there
are some visitors to the fair who shy
at lightning rod booth. A Des Moines
firm manufacturing lightning rods has
erected handsome brick building or
the fair grounds in which to display
it's wares.
Thrashing machines are conspicuous
by their absence this year altho there
are few on the grounds. Most of the
big manufacturers. however, hav5
stood by their agreement to quit ex-
/ hibiting at the Iowa fair.
But all of the other familiar farm
/ implements with the latest improve
ments added, are there Practically
every important manufacturer of farm,
machinery in the country has an eS-
hibit of its product on the grounds.
| Cement machinery takes a more
prominent place among the machiner!
exhibits this year than ever before
The use of cement on the farm is rap
idly increasing and several manufac-
turers of machines for turning out ce-
me MT products are on hand with eN-
hibits The exhibits of road machinery
are also larger than ever. before, show
ing the increased interest being taker
in road building in Iowa.
A binder Irvine machine in operation
in the International Harvester Com
pary's tent is attracting much atten
ton The machine shows just how
birder Irvine is made from hemp ant
rolled into balls. A crowd stood abou
the machine all day yesterday. Man.
of the other exhibitors have all the.
machinery in operation so that the Wis
itors can see exactly how it works. Al
a result the machinery tents and build
ings are the noisiest places on tn
grounds.