Arizona republican., 1918-10-06
EXPERIMENTAL FARM
 RODEO AND TRACTOR
 SHOW GREAT SUCCESS

attracted a great deal of attention at this. it's first demonstration in this section
 This machine is motorized version Of the well known International culti- yator, worked out in a highly practical and Creditable manner, as is evidenced by Mir. Stapley's statement that it had been tried out in the cotton fields of the Southwest Cotton company and pronounced by their engineers to be entirely satisfactory.
 The motor cultivator is pushed by the motor assembly, which gets trac- tion by means of a pair of open trac- ton wheels having width of "A inches, thus passing through an or dinary row. The cultiVator is carried by the customary two wheels in front, and carries two gangs, for the culti- vation of two rows. The whole ma chine, while cultivatinE, is steered by the feet of the operator in the same motion that he uses to operate the gangs of blows, the steering wheel coming into use only at the end of the row for turning. The machine car ries hitch in the rear for the attach ment of harrows. weeders or discs, when used as a tractor.
 All the machines worked during the forenoon in a fog of dust, thus demon strating their efficiency under dry con- ditions. and not one of the tractors demonstrated had the least mechanical difficulty during the entire day.
 The Noontime
 At noon farmers. dealers, demon- strators, Snd all, adjourned to the farmhouse of the Experimental Farm, where they ate the lunches they had brought, washed down by the coffee and lemonade which was served free to all.
 The speaking program began at 1, with the crowd sitting comfortably in the shade, and the speakers using the porch as a rostrum. Frank H. Parker. president of the Marcopa County Farm Bureau, introduced the speak CTS, the first of whom was Dr. c. B. | Smith, chief of extension work for the north and west for the United States department of agriculture.
 Dr. Smith spoke largely of the farm | bureau work and it's benefits. pointing out that it is through the county farm | bureaus that the men who raise the | crops come in touch with their govern ment, it's need and desires. and the needs of the allies. and that it is through these bureaus. the result of the extension work of the department ot agriculture that the latest knowledge of the results of the experience of oth- CTS becomes available.
 He further pointed out that the gov ernment had considered the work oi the farm bureaus of such major im- | portance that at the beginning of the war, when there were only about 5OC county agents, an appropriation was passed by congress for this work. witt the result that there are now nearly 5000 county agents, 1000 paid exper workers and demonstrators and nor, than 1900 woman agents for the de. partment, the latter being advisors ir | the matters of conservation and say ing More than 50,000 farmers belon. to the farm bureaus, he stated.
 Complimenting the farmers for tn, way they had met the situations tha have been put up to them. Dr. Smitl told of how they had planted 26, GOO. .OO acres more last year than the year be fore, had raised more than a billioI bushels more wheat and potatoes thal formerly, ending with a ringing appea to support the farm bureaus and f. profit by them.
 pr. R. B. NonKliensmid, president O
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