The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-14
Engines and Machines for
Every Purpose at Fair.
Motor Churns, Farm Imple-
ments and Road Machinery.
GRADER LARGEST ON DISPLAY
Exhibit Surpases Hutchinson
and SedaIia Fairs Combined.
Even Have Machine to Make
Hogs Grind Own Corn.

This is the fair" announced sat
isfied machinery exhibitor as he look
ed over the five acres of machinery
at the fair today. The machinery
show here is as large as that OF the
Hutchinson and Sedalia fairs COM
bined."
Machinery and appliances to light
en- the fam-wife's labors and to make
farm life run more easily and pleas
urabIy make feature of the ma
chinery section of the Big Free Fair.
There are little gasoline engines and
motors galore. all guaranteed TO run
a lighting system, rock the cradle,
milk the cows and bring the ram;
everything in fact.
The second feature is the large eN-
hibits of modern good roads machtn-
cry testifying to another of Kansas
prime interests. And there are nun
dreds of entries of every other sort or
farm implements and machinery The
machinery exhibit this year has drawn
more interest than ever before.
Engines Do Everything.
Catching the farm wife's eye are
the electric lighting motor systems eX-
hibited by the Delco and Fairbanks
Morse companies Fhe Delco exhibit
is a cottage in which their battery
and motor are keeping the house brill
liantly lighted, keeping the churn
churning, the washing machines wash
ing and the milk separating. A fea
ture of their exhibit is the fact that
the engine can use kerosene as fuel st
a large saving. The Fairbanks Morse
system is equally versatile in its abil
ity to perform everything there is to
be done about the farm house. The
systems are equipped with universal
attaching motors capable of beng
connected with any size gearing.
The increasing necessity of the gasO-
line engine on the farm and in the
Is c11F. 1.xr he l.a-c hi hi G
Of the Challenge company. the Gallo
way company of Iowa and the Interna-
tional Harvester exhibit by the Topeka
firm OF Seery & Morton All sizes and
prices of engines are shown from a
compound "chugger" costing only $25
TO others running up in price to the
hundreds. The International Harves-
ter company exhibit includes in addi-
ton may sorts of farm implements
and wagons.
Much Road Machinery.
More than fifty different articles of
good roads machinery are exhibited
by the j. D. Adams company the Road
Supply and Metal company, of which
Good Roads" H. S. Putney of Topeka
is the Topeka representative; the
Russell Company of Minneapolis and
Monroe Road King Machinery.
The biggest piece of machinery is a
huge grader in the Road Supply and
grading and planning both sides of a
thirty-foot road and requiring fifteen
teams to pull it. The Reclamation
Ditcher" of the j. d. Adams company
is nearly as large. The smaller graders
of the latter company are equipped
with the useful device of sloping
wheels. permitting a much greater
angle in grading the side of a road.
Both the Russell and Monroe COM
panles had large machines capable of
grading and planning wide road and
many other sizes and types.
Hogs Grind Own Corn.
The hog oilers" and hog motors
by which Sir Pig unconsciously oils
himself while in the pig yards or un-
knowingly grinds his own corn while
feeding from the circular revolving
trough of the motor. gave unsophisti-
Gated city folks a good many laughs.
They We're exhibited by Hog Motor
company of Minneapolis. Lion Hog