Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-24
TRACTORS EASE FARM WORK
Machines Do Wonders and Supplant
Many Horses.
LECTURES AT THE LAND SHOW
BiE Power Flowing Demonstra ton
VIII Take Place This Afternoon
at TbIrtieth and Spencer
streets

Tractors and traction farming has at
tracted attention At the Land Show as
representing the last word in modern
farm methods. In addition to blowing
demonstrations and seven tractor exhibits
in machinery bali the MANAGEMENT has
provided a series Of interesting and enter
talning lectures
A. r. Thompson Of the Avery company
has shown the Avery tractor in moving
pictures and James a, King Of the Hart
Parr company has been giving practical
Illustrated talks dealing with the use Of
the various models Of the Hart. Parr
tractors and experimental farms near
Charles city and Rudd, Floyd county,
iowa.
Following up this program a special
lecture was given Monday afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock by NJ. l.. w. Ellis OF the
Rumely company La Porte. Ind who
stopped for dag al the Oilpull exhibit
on his return from the dry farming con-
sress at Colorado Springs.
Evolution of the Pillow.
Mr.. Ellis chose for his subject THE
Evolution OF Power and the Pillow"
tracing the development Of the pillow from
the crooked stick Of the unmodernized
nations to the present outfits that pillow
an acre in four and a quarter minutes
BY means Of realistically colored slides
he represented the transition TO the
wooden pillow. sulky, gang, disc and
finally the engine pillow In various types.
At the same time the change In applica-
lions Of power were shown man, the
camel the OK. the horse, the threshlng
engine and the steam blowing engine
giving way before the modern gasoline
and kerosene tractors.
Tractors shown at Work.
Tractors we're shown blowing, discing,
narrowing, harvesting and threshlng the
wheat crop--even comblng I'm one OPP
GRAFTON the preparation Of the ground and
the seeding OF the crop, while In an
other picture the tractor and the COM
bined harvester were seen cutting, |
threshlng and sacking rs to 100 acres a
day. Wlde-wheeled engines blowing |
marsh land, where horses could not have |
been used, and others fording streams
climbing mountains. moving houses,
building roads and railway grades. plow-
ing in the Enow OF spring and threshing |
in the SHOWS Of winter were shown
Tractioneer Always Busy.
1.-The traotloneer," said Mr.. Ellis, us |
busy the whole year through. Some day
a single motor driven machine may dis
place the horse, the plow and the tractor.
the mower, the cart and the binder. but |
l doubt IL. and for the present. like the |
tired horses one occasionally sees lean
Ing over the fence, am perfectly willing
to let the tractor do the work.
A Far Cry to the spaders.
After showing the immense shops de- /
voted to the building OF tractors and the |
long trains Of engines on route TO the |
wheat fields, the speaker concluded:
THE manufactures has done much to |
conserve human labor. which, next to |
human life. In our choicest asset. II is |
far cry back to the days OF Mlllets |
Spaders Their work Of centuries may |
now be concentrated In the space OF |
weeks by an outfit recently shown at
Purdue university, consisting Of three
kerosene tractors successfully yoked to
the giant pillow OF fifty bottoms--ithe
worlds greatest spectacle Of power on
the farm opening the door for euSer-
prises 80 vast and equipment so gigantic
that In few years the turbines OF the
oNmpics Of the set. or the great central
power plant on land, will no longer
dwarf the agencies with which man ae-
the fundamental task of feed
ing himself"
Mr.. Ellis il q graduate Of Iowa state
college, At Ames. was formerly a trao-
ton blowing expert for the United States
Department Of Agriculture. and is Joint
author OF Power and tho Piow." a re-
Gently published work which ls the only
treatise extant on power farming lie Is
a cousin OF w. d, Elwood. manager OF
the Omaha Lightning Rod and Electric
company.