Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-11
ADVANCE IN FARM METHODS
SHOWN AT UNIQUE EXHIBIT

derful article contributed TO this ex-
hibition." 1t was the exact reaper
| that was shown at the worlds fair
| in San Francisco, and here il return
| ed to it's birthplace to show what
| Chicago did in manufacturing way
for the cause of agriculture in that
early day.
Side by side with this old reaper,
| which in it's day took half the stoop-
| ing toll out of harvest and started
! the process of releasing men from
! agriculture for other Industries was
| shown an international combined
notwithstanding most mod
ern mechanism for harvesting grain.
| With this machine two men and a
| tractor can harvest twenty acres a
| day, threShing the wheat and bag
| gtng it all at the same time as the
| machine goes through the field. We
can grasp the significance of this ma
| chine when we understand that the
! agricultural, industrial and financial
| world can go ahead only as progress
is insured by reliable supply of food
! and when We understand that the
wheat harvest-the principal bread
ration of the world-ripens quickly
and in the average climate must be
| harvested within a few days. With
the old cradle, the worlds harvest
\ was. limited by the number of able
, bodied men who could be found to
swing cradles in the field. In that
day the great majority of the popu-
lation had to remain on the farm
close. to the food supply, 1t being
possible to spare only a few to live
of the reaper enlarged the acreage
which each farmer could care for
and automatically increased the food
supply in proportion to the popula-
ton. The combined harvester
thresher is a symbol of modern life
| fxrro ooY IA nuf
and thresh twenty acres of grain a
day and do so by the control of ma
chinery without the STOPPING, heavy,
physical toll with which the many
The International Observation-Disclosures
is a fitting representative of the
many machines which have furnish
ed men and women to found cities
| and the myriads of enterprise which
make up modern civilized life.
| AS the harvest follows ploWlng
and sowing, so transportation must
| follow the harvest. While there are
! $4,000 miles of highways. and it is
| over these that the bulk of our com
merce originates and over which 1t
must first be borne to market or
shipping point In order to do jus
tice to the Importance of transpor-
tation, the International Harvester
| company ST CIV ed in the midst OF It's
modern and ancient exhibit three In
|
the farmer may start the worlds
food supply on it's way. It exhibit
ed it's 1,50O-pound speed truck for
high speed and quick delivery, its
| 6,000-2ound eavy duty truck, suit
able for the heaviest loads origi-
Mating on the farm, for climbing
hills and pulling through the mud,
end also It's 10,O00-pound truck-a
monster Of highway traffic, capable
of pulling loads undreamed of at
the time the reaper and the old plows
were the order of the day, These
;notor truck, are the products of tW4,
| Factories in Springfield, Ohio, anG
| Akron, ChiJ, AID another exclusive
motor truck plant which will be the
| .HIG"%l III
construcl.o on at Fort Wayne, md. A
stable proportion of this great out
Put OF 6 6iop s s[uGKs IS uSeu on ne
| of rural transportation in the mod
ern world.