Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-03
Entertainment for All at the In-Penty Tractor Sh)w

gust I'll was to get into the water
melon season as early as possible.
For there will be lots of fun as well
as a good deal of work connected
with the big show. And some OF the
fun will come from eating the lus-
cious melons that grow in the out
skirts of Fremont. ."
Last year barbecued OK was also
on the program. While details are
not yet arranged there is no reason
to believe the preparations will be on
a less elaborate scale than in previous
years.
One thing is almost certain. There
will be more room than last year.
The grounds comprise $40 acres, but
last year there was rain almost every
day and there was nothing doing on
large section Of that space unless
one wanted to use high rubber boots.
II coming events cast their shad-
ow before the OK for the barbecue
will come, as last year, from the
South Omaha stock yards, and coffee
will be served by the German-Ameri-
can Coffee company.
There will be experts on every
hand to explain TO greenhorns all
about the big machines. All kinds Of
questions may be expected to be
asked, from whether or not the trac-
tors are the same kind as are used in
the European war, to whether it will
take two or four horses to draw
them.
These tractor shows are like picnic
parties In many respects, and after
the days work is done there will be
lots Of opportunity for good times
and recreation.
Last year there was summer
school one hour in the forenoon. The
lecturer told Just what the big ma
chimes would do and what they could
not do. He showed how the tractor
should be operated. Then when he
had talked himself out, or the crowd
thought he had, permission was given
to ask questions. That would give
one chance to see that the lecturer
llau IVl uOWII a. dlly 0AL AOulA
keep on talking all day ard night if
necessary Women were slmost per-
suaded that they could not plant a
flower garden without tractor, and
the small children stopped playing
horse and automobile and initiated
their elders with some improvised
toys that looked like the big ma
chimes their daddies had come to buy
il they could find the cash or credit.
There was time when these DEM
onstrations were contests. But that
way of conducting them was dead
failure Contests are all right in old
fashioned fire engine company meets,
when the ambition OF each contend
ing party Is to play the biggest
stream, but in tractor shows the OBJ
ject Is not to beat the other fellow
in speed or endurance so much as to
sell machines. OF course no one
wanted TO buy old fire engines, but
there are hundreds Of farmers at the
shows to buy tractors as soon as
their ship comes In" if not before.
For it Is not always the fastest OF
the most enduring machine that .
HAL WdutS. HetC e AtG IhNkOla iUl
every kind and condition Of man. Ont
wants machine that will last ! life,
time and he wants . big one. Hi
neighbor wants cheap affair tina,
will last him until he gets enough
money to get q better one. One
farmer has big farm that can &C,
commodate all kinds Of big equip
ment--the bigger the better; another
has only small farm and is goinf
to Manitoba, or somewhere, next year
and wants q machine that he can sent
BY freight for not more than 1t cos
ii the beginning. Oh, yes, there ar'
plenty of good reasons why the dem
onstration plan is superior to the con
test plan.
Every day there are dynamite ex
hibitions. In these the lecturer show
how to plant trees by dynamite. TIL
idea Is that In this way the groun,
is not tramped down 50 hard as is tn
case when the hole Is dug, for ther
is not so hard wall for the tende
rootlets to break through. Ditche
are also dug by dynamite and all sue
suggestions as these 60 with the trac
tor demonstrations.
There Is always parade one da,
The animals" are all out in thei
cages, or we'll guarded. One day
devoted to Nebraska alone, anothe
to Iowa and Kansas, or perhaps I
the two states together. and there ar
other days for representatives Of sue
states as may show interest. The in
piement dealers, OF course, have da
OF their own, and the Ak-Sar- Ben me
have q day 10 themselves in maxim
things hum. Last year the schot
children were drilled in a singing fes
and there was sort OF pantomime {
the civil war and intervening histor
in which the veterans OF '6l to '6s III
ured. The Redpath chautauqua wa
there. too, with force Of speaker
and there was plenty Of good mus
by the bands and various orchestra
The Fourth regiment Nebraska NJ
tional guard had an encampmcfit nei
the grounds last year and there wei
other side shows too numerous
mention.
The hot tamale sellers, the pean,
vendors, the newspaper .youngste
and the politicians viii all be ther
for il is presidential year this yea
and besides preparedness upon Il
farm there will be appeals to be pr
pared to fight the combined hosts
Europe after they get done slaughte
ing each other,
The first tractor show on reco
was held in Nebraska. II was he
IN Omaha during the big land she
81 1911. The credit for the origin
idca- Of demonstrating the tract,
then almost unknown in its apple
ton to farming, belongs to E. 4. II