The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-20
THE SALIVA DEMONSTRATION
The SaIina Demonstration VIII Be the
Only National Tractor Demon
stration This Year.

In view of the critical condition of
the food situation, the tractor DEM
onStration at Salina, Kansas, from
July 29th to August 3rd, will be the
only authorized national tractor DEM
onstration this year. The Govern
ment, the war industries. and other
essential industries, need every pos
sible freight car and every locomotive
to carry forward the work of victory.
Every farm machine expert and sales
man is needed to continue his regular
work of selling tractors to the farmers
and of keeping the tractors sold work
ing "a hours day where necessary.
The farmers themselves who attend
demonstrations 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 strenuous
circumstances under which it will be
held. 1t will pay because of the
impetus it 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 it has been the custom to hold an
agricultural machinery 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
were at their height, the Lyons Imple-
ment Show was held with numerous
exhibitions of modern farming ma
chimes. With the battle line as close
to Lyons as Omaha or Guthrie, Okla
homa, are to Salina. Kansas. French
manufacturers and dealers and farm
ers gathered as usual at Lyons to see
the machines and to make contracts
for next years business. If France.
with the war at her doors, can afford
to keep alive her implement shows,
America can certainly afford to take
the time to hold one great national
tractor demonstration.
Farmers, tractor and farm machine
manufacturers, educators and writer's,
and others interested in tractor farm
! ing, will come from all over the
/ country to attend the Salina demon
stration. Representatives from other
countries are sure to be present, just
as they always have been at Americas
great demonstrations.
Because it is possible this year to
display two belt machines, the Inter-
| national Harvester Company is plan
ming to enlarge its course of tractor
farming which it worked out during
1916 and 1917 to include threshing and
| cutting ensi1age v. ell a; blowing.
narrowing, disking, fertilizing, drill
| ing, cultivatins and harvesting. For
the first time the belt end OF farm
| work will receive due recognition
In addition to the ten International
Mogul and Titan tractors and three
motor cultivators, the Harvester Com
pany will also have Low Corn King
and Low C1overleaf manure spreaders.
Deering and Mccormick binders and
disk harrows, and Hoosier and Ken
| lucky grain drills. With this equip
| ment 1T will be possible to give a COM
plete demonstration of what a farmer
| can do with tractor.
The Salina demonstration will pay
| dividends in various forms to Ameri-
| cam agriculture and American farm
| machine manufacture. With all our
ECONOMIES of time and transportation,
| there is reason to be glad that we
were given one demonstration on a
national scaIe-AdV