The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-19
Farm Machinery Exhibits at
Free Fair Biggest Ever.
Finding Place To Put Them Is
Proving Hard Problem.
FARMERS MUCH INTERESTED
Many Expected To Place Or
ders for Tractors Here.
Every Modern Farm Device To
y Be Seen at Big Show.

/ Themachinery exhibit at the Kansas
Free fair September STA already
promises to overflow machinery field
lotted for picnic parties and parking
OF autos.
In 1917 and in 1918 the manage
ment of the free fair was hard put
to find space for the machinery men
to set up their exhibits. Ground which
had never before been needed for the
housing of exhibits had to be re-
claimed from the use of the public
and added to the already large plot
of ground set aside for the machinery
show And 1917 and 1918 were both
war years-years when the citizens Of
the state were primarily interested in
whipping the Hun and when every
dollar which coul dbe spared was put
into the hands of the government for
use in purchasing munitions or was
given to the war charities to provide
comfort for the fighting men in the
trenches.
Much Interest to Farmers.
But peace has come again. The
money of the farmers-and this year
there Is plenty of twill be turned
chinery and to the undertaking of
farm equipments.
OF especial interest this year will
be the tractor show. The Kansas
farmers have taken to the use of the
tractor as sunflowers take to the sun.
Hundreds of Kansas farms are plowed
with the aid of the powerful motors
now. And where there are hundreds
of tractors in the Kansas prairies to-
day there will be thousands next year.
Most of the new ones will be ordered
at Kansas fairs, and it is expected that
tractor exhibitors at the Kansas Free
fair will reap g. harvest both in good
will, in interest, and in actual sales
that will warm their hearts and make
the free fair smile garnish their faces.
Other Farm Exhibits.
In the farm equipment section of
machinery field there will be many
and various kinds of electric and
acetylene lighting plants-each one
of them giving a day long demonstra-
ton. In these days of automobiles
and record wheat and corn prices
Kansas farmers have decided that the
old fashioned farm house lighted with
Oil lamps are things to be avoided.
Hundreds of farm homes are today
as well equipped with light and heat
and power plants as a modern city.
And the plants range from equipment
designed for merely lighting the house
10 the Dig plants designed to furnish
light for both home and outhouses
and barns and to furnish power for
the cream separator, the corn shelter
and the dozens of other little con-
veniences which today make farm life
more attractive and more profitable
than in the days of the pioneers.
From end to end machinery field.
augmented as it will be with space ad-
dftions taken from other parts of the
grounds. will be an exhibit so compre-
hensiye in it's scope that the farmer
having in mind any one particular
class of improvement for his home
or farm will be assured of finding it
among the exhibits.
OF course the other departments of
the big Kansas Free Fair will be
bigger and better than ever, and the
race and amusement program will be
we'll above the usual standard. 1t will
pay any Kansan to attend the Kansas
Free Fair at Topeka-and tourists will
find reason for stopover.