The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1919-04-03
BIG NORTHWEST TRAC.
TOR DEMONSTRATION
"aila Walla viii Have Big Show
This Year, April 23, "a and 25.

Walla Walla; April 2.-Walla
Walla's first annual tractor demon
slration is assured. It's going to be
The most pretentious event of the
kind in the American Northwest in
1919 and every indication points to
a record attendance during the three
days OF the exhibition, April 23, "a
and 25..
AS an evidence of the widespread
interest in the farm power demon
strations more than 1000 factory
representatives will be on the ground
10 personally present their products.
Tractors and other equipment will
give actual tests on a six hundred
acre wheat farm on the outskirts of
Walla Walla Transportation facil-
tiles will be such that the visitors
may reach the scene of the daily
demonstrations with an adequate SER
vice all hours of the day.
Already more than $50 different
firms have agreed to make displays
with the result that it will require
not less than $50 large sized railway
cars to haul the exhibits to Walla
Walla.
In addition to one of the most
complete exhibits of farm tractors
and trucks ever assembled in the
west, there will also be interesting
displays embracing everything in
power machinery that can be used on
the farm ranging from lighting and
pumping plants to washing and sew
ing machines.
Walla Walla's tractor and power
| farming demonstration is going to
be half million dollar event. Walla
| Walla, through the general commit
tee handling the attraction, has ar
ranged to handle more than $4,000
visitors.
Power equipment is now recogni-
zed as most essential part of mod
ern husbandry and the demonstration
at Walla Walla will prove one of the
great educational events if the year.
Conservation has become almost a
national watchword during the great
war. With the period of reconstruc-
| tion almost over the whole world
now at hand, conservation is and will
continue to be for a long time the
greatest of many human endeavors.
In planning and promoting the
tractor demonstration and power
farming event at Walla Walla the
conservation of man power is easily
the keynote of the enterprise. The
exposition of labor and time saving
equipment will plainly set forth the
medium by which the more rapid
development of the Northwest may
be accomplished, or "The Zone of
Plenty" so aptly put by the late
James ]. Hill.
The selection of Walla Walla, in
the heart of the great Inland Empire
farming district, as the location for
the event, easily makes the show
accessible to Washington, Oregon
Idaho and Montana farmers. The
event has the sanction of the Nation
al Tractor Association and has at
tracted the attention of the builders
of power farming machinery in every
part of the nation.
Full details of the event may be
had by writing w. o. Munsell, of the
Portland Tractor and Implement
Association at Portland, Oregon or
to A. S. Fetterman, secretary of the
Pacific Northwest Tractor and Power
Farming Association at Spokane.
The farmer and the farmers wife
and family will all benefit by this
display of labor saving equipment.
The event likewise will be of i'm
portance to the business man owning
farm as an investment.