Omaha daily bee., 1915-07-12
FREMONT TRACTOR
SHOW A HUMMER
Sixty Thousand Visitors Expected to
Watch Latest Farm Engines
in Action.
ENTRY LIST is MUCH LARGER


! sixty thousand visitors sre expected
this wear to see the farm tractors tear
IN a section or two Of ground at Ere
mont when the big farm tractor demon
strntion is nut on August to "a. sixty
thorsaud is the estimate made, not by
a wild-eyed CIRCUS press agent but by
men who know what the crowd was last
year and who know from the correspond
ence received thus far. what to expect
this year Last wear 5000 visited the
demonstration. The additional entries
this year. the additional 800 acres Of
ground leased for the demonstration, and
the, general pulse Of the expansion that
is felt in the whole project. indicatesthat
the crowds will be coTrespondipgly large.
Turning TO Mach inery.
AS horsef1esh becomes deerer and
dearer in the market, and more and
more expensive to maintain. and as en-
gines az the same time reach higher
and higher efficiency for all classes OF
farm work with a minimum Of cost OF
maintenance. farmers are every year
turning moro to steam and gasoline to do
their work for them.
] No one need think that the manutac-
turers have overlooked this tendency
( They have been on .heir toes to perfect
! engines for everv SPECIAL class Of work
On the farm Likewise the live ones
have been anxious to enter their tractors
in this farm demonstration. This is but
the third year Of the demonstration. Yet
every year-t the entries have grown by
bounds. This year there are forty-one
manufacturers of farm tractors entered,
This is an increase of so per cent over
| last years entries.
MiIitary Parade.
| No. this does not mean that only for
| ty-one tractors are entered. 1t means
that forty-one separate and distinct man
ufacturing houses have, entaped their
several tractors. some Of them entering
as high as three and four tractors each.
| The Fourth infantry of the Nebraska
National guard will be in camp at Free
mont, and one day during the festivities
there is TO be parade of the guardsmen
through the streets Of Fremont, as a
special feature of the festivities.
Monday evening of the week there is
TO be a big banquet, with Governor ,Morez
head and the governors of Kansas and
Iowa as guests
Tuesday Is to be Fremont and Dodge
County day.
Implement Dealers. Day.
Wednesday is to be implement dealers
day This is to be made of especial in
terest to dealers and manufacturers of
all kinds of implements, as on this day
the tractors and engines will be put to
work in a special demonstration to show
all the various kinds of uses to which
a fern tractor or other farm engine may
be put.
| Thursday is to be Nebraska and South
Dakota day
| Private and general demonstrations are
to be given every afternoon on the big
tract of ground leased for the purpose
north Of the city. Some 900 acres of
extra ground above what was used last
year. has been leased this year
Tractor short courses are to be offered.
| Dynamite demonstrations are to be given,
showing all the different uses to which
dynamite can be put in farm operations
from blasting for drainage purposes to
blasting out stumps.
The big tractor demonstration will be
given every afternoon from l; 80 70 4:2O.
At that time all the farm tractors will
be demonstrating for the benefit of the
entire audience.
A big barbecue is to be- held when the
Union Stock Yards company Of Omaha
will roast an OK.