Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-09-27
ST. Louis Agricultural Fair Can
Borrow a Building for
that Purpose.
VERSATILITY TO BE SHOWN
Varied Tasks to Be Performed bv
Tractors Include Operation of
Electric Lighting Plant
and Electric Fans.

me Tractor Show of the st. Louis
Agricultural Fair October to 7
(Veiled Prophet Week., will be nota-
Bile for the great variety of tasks
that tractors will perform, according
to Thomas W. Garland, president of
/ the fair.
"Insomuch as the National Tractor
Farming Demonstrations held recent.
~ at eight cities, including st. Louis,
| proved conclusively the success of the
tractor in blowing, we will do COMPARE
lively little blowing, 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.
that tractors can do only a small part
OF the farm work and that consequent
ly almost as many horses, are neces-
sary on farm equipped with trac-
tors as on one not so equipped The
! truth is that the tractor can do vir-
tually everything that horses can do.
including the hauling of the farm
products to market, and also MANY
things that horses cannot do"
Tractor to Pull Six WAGONS.
Besides demonstrating their ability
to haul material and crops to and
from market tone tractor pulling five
or six wagons, loaded), the tractors.
according to Mr.. Garland, will do road
work, operating a road drag and a
| road grader; prepare the seed bed,
by blowing, narrowing, discing, roll
ing and pulverizing; plant, by drill
ing in small grains; harvest by draw.
ing mowers, grain and corn binders.
in multiples, with various bitches;
operate, by means of a belt an en-
s1lage cutter, silo cutter, corn
shelter, feed grinder, a hay baler,
stalk shredder, q wood saw, small
thresher and an electric dynamo;
pull stumps, spread manure, haul
water, operate pumps, and (if some
one will lend a building for the oc-
cas1on) move building The belt
work is to include the operation of
an electric lighting plant and electric
fans
Being part of the Machinery De-
partment, the Tractor Show will have
as its director Frank E. 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 the Machinery
Department will be a model dairy
exhibit. There will be a stable hay-
ing complete, up-to-date, sanitary
equipment, including steel stalls, steel
feed troughs, steel litter carriers, steel
feed carriers and complete battery
of milking machines. The cattle will
be MIXED by machinery every morn
ing and evening. AS the milk is
drawn automatically from the cattle
it will be taken to an adjoining tent,
where, after being clarified, it will
be put through the latest cream
separators. The cream thus separ-
ated will be cooled and churned.
The Tractor Show and the model
! dairy exhibit are expected to share
interest with the agricultural pageant,
which is to portray the evolution of
farm equipment and farm practice
from the day of the Indian to the
present day.
The agricultural pageant is to
show the evolution of team power
| (donkeys, oxen, horses, mules, auto
| mobiles and tractors), of harvesting
machinery (siekle, scythe, cradle,
moving machine, tedder, self-rake,
harvester and self-binder), of plows
| (wooden, single shovel, single, wood
en- mould board, first steel, ox-team,
riding, gang, and, with tractors, sew
eral gangs), of cultivators (single
] shovel, double shovel, two-horse single
row, and, with tractor, four-horse
double row., Of farm cooking (kettle
hung on supports, wood stoves, coal
stoves, ranges, gas stoves and cleo
trio stoves) and of farm lighting
| candle to electric light planD.
other Features of Fair.
| OLHSE lGdIuTeS OL the Ldlr, announced
by Secretary John T. Stinson, are:
EXHIBITS = Automobile Show,
Horse Show, Dairy Cattle Show,
Swine and Sheep Exhibits, Agri-
cultural Exhibits, Poultry Show,
Mule Show, etc.
AMUSEMENTS-H Races,
Running Races, Mule Races, Auto
mobile Races, etc. Band concerts
daily.
The features of fair week in st.
Louis are to include the Yelled
Prophets Shakespearean celebration,
costing about 100000 and including
street pageant of % electric floats
depicting scenes from Shakespearean
plays; and Americas first show
ing, collectively, of 1917 models of
automobiles. The new models are
to parade' through the downtown
business district the mornings of
Tuesday, October 3, and Thursday,
October 5, both parades terminating
at the fair.