Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-09

traction engines ranging from the big
mogul type designed for heavy farm
and hauling work to the small orchard
and vineyard machine are to he ON
exhibition on the same field and at the
same time in demonstration planned
( by Orchard and Farm. The exhibition
will be held at Fresno b1uary ~,
20 and 21, followed by sintiIac ex-
himit at Marysville March {, s and I.
All of these engines will for three
days operate under actual farm con-
ditions and the demonstrations will
be largely educational in nature for
the farmers of the San Joaquin and
Sacramento valleys.
Power is the most important factor
in the modern farm operations. 1t is
Just as essential on the farm as in the
factory. The more efficient the power
the more efficient the farm or the
factory. The tractor is rapidly devel-
oping as the most effective farm pow
er engine ard this demonstration as
planned will give farmers an oppor-
tunity of seeing nearly every type OF
tractor manufactured on the Pacific
coast and those represented on the
markets in this territory in operation
at the same time. They will be in a
position to Judge for themselves which
type will be best adapted to their in
dividual needs.
Orchard and Farm in its last issue
announced the demonstration as fol-
lows:
"Use and utility are interviewer
with every phase of progress in all
lines of human activity. California
and Pacific coast farmers by rapidity
of improved progress in means and
methods of farming have come to
know much about use and utility of
power equipment to supplement or
replace horse power in farm work.
Much in general has been learned by
a considerable number in the use and
effectiveness of traction engines in
general farm and orchard work in this
region, out on account of the very ex-
tended and rapid farm development in
California with many new people
meeting new conditions each year,
much still remains to be learned. In
fact, ultimate development and posi-
bilities considered, this matter of
farming with iron horses is still
hardly out of its infancy.
"The day of land grants, of big
ranches, in the sense used in the SOS
and '9Os is past. The day Of loose farm
labor conditions, which by its very
looseness made it a condition easily
met, passed with the big ranches. So
today we have rapidly increasing con-
ditions of intensity in farm work;
more people, more farms, more effect
i've methods, specialized crops, and
hand in hand with it all, growing
scarcity of help because of greater de-
mand for it
Coupled with the help problem is
the horse question of expense, in cost
and feed and handling, and the fact
that more and more California is de-
veloping as a direct producer Of food
for humans rather than for four-foot-
ed animals.
$50 the matter of iron horses, of
internal combustion traction engines
for farm work is live ore before Cal.
ifornians today, with the promise of
icing still more alive during the next
decade. Realizing this fact and the
growing Importance of the situation
Orchard and Farm is pleased to an
nounce that a step forward toward
more and better understanding of the
use and utility of gas traction engines
and supplementary equipment has
been taken by the promotion of den-
onstration exhibition of traction en-
gines and machinery to take place
February 19, 20 and 21 at Fresno.
This meeting at Fresno is designed
for the San Joaquin valley, and lit
tie later a similar one will be held at
an equally available point in the Sac
ramento valley, announcement OF
which will soon be made in detail.
GAS the man states, this is to be
demonstration exhibition-a showing
of a majority of machines being sold
in California side by side under iden-
tical conditions of actual work Big
and little viii be there to demonstrate
their various practical uses, and while
it is obvious that the little car cannot
do all the work Of the big and vice
versa, it is equally true that each has
it's adapted used and this demonstra-
ton will show these uses.
"To the man casually interested in
power farming, the meeting will com