Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-29
ROMANCE OF PLOW
AT TRACTOR SHOW
Motion Pictures with Love Drama TO
Show the Transition from In
dian Methods.
so HUGE TRACTORS IN ACTION

The Romance Of the Plow;'
maybe that don't sound as romantic
as When Knighthood Was II
Flower" No matter, IL has posi-
bilities just as picturesque. These
possibilities will be developed in Q
big open air drama covering a period
of three days, on the fields north o.
Fremont Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday, August IL, ~ and 10. II
will take from 80 to 100 winnebagc
Indians, and thousands OF dollars
worth OF other equipment, to stage
this great drama for the moving pic
lures.
Between 5000 and 10000 feet OF reel are
to be made for the moving picture serv-
Ice all over the world. The Holt Feature
Film company has arranged 20 make the
pictures. The big drama 10 to be staged
In connection with the National Power
Farming Demonstration, which will be
In progress at Fremont. August to H.
From Indian Hunting Ground.
Briefly. the drama contemplates q
sweeping review OF the development Of
the Nebraska prairie from the savage
Indian and his hunting grounds to the
modern tractor blowing and power farm
ing system OF agriculture A love plot
IL TO be interwoved. In the swift march
of agricultural development, a. II will
be reproduced here for the movieA the
Indians viii be seen hoeing their squaw
corn with crude hoes made Of clam shells
and bison bones. Next win be seen the
homesteader, coming in with his prairie
schooner, and OK team. setting TO work
with the help OF his brave young bride.
TO build sod house and later a log
house. This settler will be seen blowing
with his wooden moleboard pillow in tho
stubborn prairie sod. Then comes more
settlers. and later the house is introduced
and the oxen are discarded. Then comes
the steel moleboard pillow, which Is a
great innovation and a welcome inven-
ton. BY this time the Indians have dis
appeared from the scene. better homes
and barns have sprung up IN the conf
munity. Next the gang pillow is mar
shalled into the fields Again the lapse
OF few years, and the farm tractor
comes chugging upon the scene. Gang
plows with almost countless bottoms viii
be drawn.
Monsters OF Steam and Gasoline.
The soil that once yielded reluctantly
and sulIenly TO the infinite toll of the
sauaw and her clamshell hoe, now gives
way, surrenders completely, and Is
thrown In riotous confusion by the power
full monsters of steam and gasoline.
As a grand climax of the three days
drama. as an illustration OF the mastery
efficiency of the modern methods of
agriculture. the eighty tractors that will
be giving demonstrations during the week,
Will be marshalled upon the big field
one behind the other. with endless gang
plows trailing. When the word Is given
eighty engines will begin to sputter,
eighty steel ribbed monsters. splitting
hot steam and gas fumes. will clank into
the harness. Ten thousands tons Of sod
Will yield. be torn from the bosom of
mother earth. churned into new position.
preparatory to receiving the seeds for
another crop. For one hour and a half
this march OF the steel brigade viii con-
tinue. And In that one and a half hours,
or ninety minutes. $50 acres Of ground
will be plowsd
This win be a. much AZ team of
horses and fourteen-inch plow could