Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-08-09
GIANT TRACTORS
EXHIBIT MONDAY
That Will Mark the Opening of the
Power Farming Exhibit to Be
Held at Fremont All Week.
SPECIAL EVENTS EACH DAY

II horses we're militarists. the
horses of Nebraska would be mobil-
lied today.
A great danger threatens their
race. No, it is not the horse disease,
that took many Of them a few years
ago. 1t is not a disease at oil. II
It were, the great phalanx of capable
: veterinarians of the state might sue
cessfully combat It,
But what threatens the horse tribe OF
Nebraska at this moment is an invasion
! OF a conquering race. The powerful
| hordes that are even now storming the
gates. are OF more virile stock. They
| are a full-chested. steel-ribbed tribe OF
well-organized monsters, girded up and
| determined to hurl the horse from his
| fields and henceforth till them them
! selves.
Tractors Line Up.
They are a tribe of kissing, gas-breath-
| ing giants. known as farm tractors They
have drawn up their battle line, some
eighty strong, on a 1,0O0-acre field north
/ of Fremont. Trenches they do not con-
slider necessary, for, hot with the con-
! fidenee of a dashing victory. they expect
to send the horse tribe into a scurryins
retreat at the first onslaught in the open.
/ The battle is scheduled to open at
o'clock Monday afternoon,
Never was battle approached With
: greater confidence on the part Of the in
vaders.
! Never was an impending battle frauEht
with graver danger TO a peaceful, patient.
faithful and industrious tribe.
Monday morning men are to flock TO
the fated field at Fremont to witness the
! charge Of scientific hosts OF steel OF the
twentieth century against the vulnerable
horse flesh of the nineteenth.
Power Demonstration.
They are calling IL the National Power
Farming Demonstration
All. but in 1852 Mohamet's attack on the
walls of Constantinope was called
merely. "'rhe Siege of Constantinople"
But II marked an epoch. with huge
cannon crammed with gunpowder for the
first time in history. he ripped down the
walls of the city, and scattered the
catapult and battering ram rafting into
the scrap-heap of antiquity.
Eighty Tractors.
Thus. when eighty tractors on Friday
afternoon of the week. glide with ponder
GUS majesty upon the field, drawing end
less gang plows. and turn over $50 acres
of deep black soil in one hour and thirty
minutes, the clock of doom will strike
twelve for horsepower farming.
This magnificent climactic charge of the
steel beasts. is to be only one of the series
OF brilliant movements they will be
executing all week. A field of 100 acres
has been reserved for the movements
Forty-six companies are entering their
tractors, to show the men of the west
what the new power can do for agri-
culture.
And Just as great feasting has always
attended the eve of battle, and triumphal
march following the victory has been at
| tended by hilarity, so preparations have
been made for all these attending cere-
monies. Those who gather on the hills
to witness the passing of horsepower and
the coming of steam and gasoline to agri-
cultural science and practice, will attend
the big banquet upon the evening of Mon
day. August Q. Miitary parades, chau-
tauqua lectures. gladitoriil combats and
wrestling matches are to amuse the null
titudes during the evenings of the week
Expert attendants of the new steel beasts
of burden, are to lecture on the technical
points Of the powerful iron heart that
drives them. so that those who are to
make use of the hosts that invade their
fields, may know how best to care for
them and get efficient service
That the agriculturists in the realm of
Nebraska and adjoining commemorative
may know what are the events and move
ments scheduled for the week attending
q
Fremont, pamphlet has been issued
giving the following schedule;
MONDAY.
Official Opening Iowa-Kansas Day.
II to 2:l5 p. m.-Big tractor parade
Demonstration ground.
II p. m.-Tractor mems banquet. Gov
ernor Morenead and Hon. w. j. Bryan
will attend the formal opening.
TUESDAY.
Wyoming, Colorado, Fremont and Dodge
County Day.
$3.50 to u a. m.-Private demonstration.
10 to 1880 a.. m.-Tractor short course.
30 to 4;9O .. m.-Public demonstration.
Chautauqua night for tractor men. Gov
eTn or Glenn q North Carolina will
WEDNESDAY.
Nebraska-lowa implement Dealers Day
Nebraska Agricultural College
and County Farm Demon
strators' Day.
$50 to u a. m.-Private demonstration.
~ 10 ll.W n. m.-TractOr short course.
1870 to $3.50 y. m.-Public demonstration.
General utility farm tractor.
C. b. O. Ry. Sioux City, Lincoln
Beatrice divisions excursions.
THURSDAY
Nebraska-South Dakota and Albian Day
l;SO TO IL a. m.-Private demonstration
10 TO 1880 a. m.-Tractor short course.
40 to $50 p. m.-Public demonstration.
C. N w. Ry. Albion, Norfolk and
Hastings divisions excursions
FRIDAY.
Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben and Live stoclr
Mems Day.
1870 TO ~ a. m.-Private demonatrat,or
. to 1888 a. m.-Tractor short course.
free Dinner-South Omaha Union Stock
Yards barbecue.
30 to $50 p. m.-Pubic demonstration
Union Pacific X. r., North Platte. Grand
cursiOns.
FREE EVERY DAY.
Hot CUP German-Americsn coffee. Col
den Rod creamery buttermiik Fremont
Natermelons.
Daily Dynamite Demonstrations.