The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-09-23
ST. Louis Agricultural Fair Can
Borrow a Building for
that Purpose.
VERSATILITY TO BE SHOWN
Varied Tasks to Be Performed BY
Tractors include Operation Of
Electric Lighting plant
and Electric Fans.

The Tractor Show OF the ST. Loule
Agricultural Fair October 2 10 7
Veiled Prophet Week), win be nota.
bic for the great variety Of tasks
that tractors win perform according
TO Thomas W. Garland, president Of
the fair.
lnsomuch as the National Tractor
Farlnlng Demonstrations held recent.
~ at eight cities, including ST. Louis.
proved conclusively the success Of the
tractor in plowlng, we will do compara.
lively little plowing. so that we may
concentrate as much as possible on
many other things that tractors can
DO, said Mr. Garland.
We are going to explode the
theory, prevalent in some quarters
mat tractors can do only a small part
OF the farm work and that consequent.
" almost as many horsel are neces.
sary on farm equipped with trac.
tors as on one not 50 equipped The
ruth Is that the tractor can do yir
tually everything that horses can do
the hauling Of tho farm
products to market, and also many
things that horses cannot do"
Tractor to Pull Six Wagons.
Besides demonstrating their ability
10 haul material and crops to ana
IRON market tone tractor pulling five
or SIX wagons, loaded, the tractors.
according to Mr. Garland, viii do road
work, operating road drag and n
ROAD grader, prepare the seed bed
by plowing, narrowing, discing, ron.
ing and pulyeriaing; plant, BY drill
Ihg IN small grains; harvest by draw.
ng mowers, grain and corn binders.
IN multlples, with various hitehes,
operate, by means Of a belt, an en-
iilage cutter, a silo cutter. corn
5heller, a feed grinder, hay baler
stalk shredder, wood saw. small
.hresher and an electric dynamo,
pull stumps, spread manure haul
water, operate pumps. and Gf sumo
me VIII lend building for the oe
'aslonl move building The belt
work Is to include the operation Of
N electric lighting plant and electric
ans.
Being part Of the Machinery Dc.
lartment, the Tractor Show will have
IS its director Frank Il. Goodwin,
superintendent OF that department,
Who is president OF the st. Louis
Tractor Farming Association. Mr..
GOODWIN has arranged for a tractor
demonstration daily
Machinery to Milk Cattle.
Another feature of he Machinery
department. will be model dairy
There will be stable haq.
ng complete, up-lo date. sanitary
quipment, including steel stalls steel
eed iroughs, steel litter carriers, steel
eed carriers and a complete battery
! milking machines The cattle viii
e milked by machinery every morn
lg and evening. As the milk is
rawn automatically from the cattle
viii be taken to an adjoining tent.
here, after being clarified, il will
9 put through the latest cream
The cream thus separ-
ted will be cooled and churned
The Tractor Show and the model
airy exhibit are expected to share
lterest with TIE agricultural pageant.
hich is to portray the evolution OF
lrm equipment and farm practice
ON the day Of the Indian to the
resent day
The agricultural pageant is TO
low the evolution of team power
ionkeys, oxen, horses, mules, auto
ohles and tractorsl, of harvesting
aehinery (sickle, scythe, cradle
owing machine. tedder, sefrake,
lrvester aud self.bnder), Of plows
wooden, single shovel. single, wood.
4 mould board. first steel, oX.ieam,
ding, gang, and, with tractors, sew
al gangsl of eutivators (single
loyel, double shovel. two.horse single
w, and, with tractor, four.horse
luble row, of farm cooking (kette
ing ON supports, wood stoves, Goa,
owes, ranges, gas stoves and cleo
ic stoyes) and of farm lighting
andle 10 electric light planU.
Other Features of Fair.
Other features of the fair. announced
/ Secretary John I. Stinson, are.
EXHIBITS = Automobile Show,
iorse Show, Dairy Cattle Show,
'wine and Sheep Exhibits. Agri
ultural Exhibits. Poultry SGow,
lule Show, etc.
ADJUSTMENTS Harness Races, :
Races, Mule Races, Auto. =
lobile Races, etc. Band concerts :
ally.
The features Of fair week In ST Il
'uis are to include the Yelled II
ophet's Shakespearean celebration II
sting about 100000 and including a
rect pageant of 22 electric floats
picting scenes from Shakespearean II
lys. and Americas first show.
Z, collectively, of 1917 models Ct |
tomobiles. The new models are
nnrade ihrnnph the downtown III