Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-07-18
THE SALIVA DEMONSTRATION
The Salina Demonstration VIII Be
Only National Tractor DEM
OnsuatiOn This Year

In view OF the critical condition Of
the food situation, the tractor dem
onstration at Salina. Kansas from
uly 2Sth TO August 3rd, will be the
only authorized national tractor
demonstration this year. The Gov
eminent, the war industries. and
other essential industries, need every
possible freight car and every loco
motive to carry forward the work
of victory. Every farm machine ex-
pert and salesman is needed to con-
tinue his regular work Of selling
tractors to the farmers and of keep
ing the tractors sold working "a
hours a day where necessary. The
farmers themselves who attend dem
onstrations are needed at home to
keep the home fires burning and the
home burrows turning.
But the Salina demonstration will
pay dividends in spite OF the strenu-
Gus circumstances under which Il
will be held. 1t will pay because OF
the impetus 1t will give to better and
more productive farming and to the
increased energy it will add to the
great American food machine. The
demonstration will pay because OF
its effects both now and after the
war.
In the city of Lyons. France,
every year 1t has been the custom TO
hold an agricultural show. We
might expect France to dispense
with that show this year, in view of
the many offensives OF steel and
blood hurled against her frontiers
But in April, as usual, while the
great drives we're at their height,
the Lyons Implement Show was held
with numerous exhibitions of mod
ern farming machines. With the bat-l
tie line as close to Lyons, as Omaha
or Guthrie, Oklahoma, are to Salina
French manufacturers and dealers
and farmers gathered as usual at
Lyons to see the machines and tol
make contracts for next years bust
ness. If France. with the war at her
doors, can afford to keep alive her
implement shows, America can GER
tainly afford to take the time to |
hold one great national tractor dem
onstration.
Farmers, tractor and farm ma
chine manufacturers, educators and
writer's, and others interested in
tractor farming, will come from all
over the country to attend the Salina
demonstration. Representatives from
other countries are sure to be pres
emit, just as they always have been
at Americas great demonstrations.
Because it is possible this year to
display two belt machines, the In
Harvester Company is
to enlarge it's course of
tractor farming which it worked out
Turing 1916 and 1917 to include
.hreshing and cutting ensilage as
we'll as blowing, narrowing, disking,
ertilizing, drilling, cuItivating, and
For the first time the
)elt end of farm work will receive
lue recognition. In addition to the ,
en- international Mogul and Titan
FACTORS and threemotor cultivators,
he Harvester company will also
lave Low Corn King and Low Glow
II leaf manure spreaders. Deering
nd Mccormick binders and disc
arrows, and Hoosier and Kentucky
rain drills. With this equipment it
will be possible to give a complete
demonstration of what a farmer
an do with tractor
The Salina demonstration will
ay dividends in various forms to
american agriculture and American
arm machine manufacture. With
IL our economies of time and trans
ortation, there is reason to be glad
hat we were given one demonstra- ,