Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-07-01

cooperation with the local dealers.
including the L. E. Titus Sales and
Service Agency Of Olympia, Tenino,
and Centralia. The caravan will con-
prise twenty-five tractors combined
with other farm equipment. A score
or more Of towns and flaming COM
munities will be visited during the
month of July.
Convinced that the demonstration
will prove one of the greatest educa-
tional features ever staged in the
state, Lieut.. Gov. w. ]. Coyle has
accepted the task of arranging the
details Of the project and will per-
sonally conduct the tour, speaking to
various communities on the value Of
motorized farm equipment. To w. S.
Mcnamara and w. H. Goodwin Of
the Ford Motor Company of Seattle
belongs big share of the credit for
sponsoring and organizing the cara
van.
Preliminary to its invasion Of
Western Washington communities
the caravan will first travel to a
point at the outskirts of the city ON
the Edmonds highway. Here a two
day demonstration will be given
July / and 2. Then the itinerary will
begin, continuing for the remainder
of the month, the dates and towns
visited to be announced later.
A feature of the caravan will be
the fact that every one Of the twenty
two tractors will be equipped with
brakes to comply with the state law
that all vehicles on state highways
pust be equipped with brakes and
rubber tires. And the caravan will
move ON its own power-these fea-
lures making the caravan the only
one Of its kind ever staged in the
country.
The train Of twenty-five tractors
hauling eighteen trailers will pre-
sent a circus parade appearance on
entering the various towns on its
itinerary, for it will be headed by a
steam calliope rendering sonorous
music as q call for the ruralites to
gather.
Other Equipment Shown.
The famous Fordson tractor and
it's wide range of utility is not the
whole show-there are eight other
concerns participating, every firm
showing the farmer its equipment to
take the place of the hired man.
One Of the first trailers will be the
calliope, while the second will carry
a stump puller, the product of the
Skagit Steel & Iron Company, Sc
dro- Woolley industry.
In the ~procession that follows will
be cole line drive equipment, this
machine being an attachment: for a
Fordson tractor. This machine will
hold great interest for the public, for
1t Is on its first exhibition here. 1t
is driven like q hores, and, better
still. this useful appliance will pull
any horse drawn vehicle. Thus the
farmer will no: be compelled to d:s-
card the equipment formerly pulled
by Old Dobbin. The Cole eqUipmt 1T
will drag q Standard OIL tank.
Stamping powder for land clearing
work will be furnished by The Ou
Pont Powder Company.
On another trailer will he toNr
plows and q disc harrow produced
by the q. A. Mitchell Tractor Com
pany Of Portland. Oregon. Then
comes q Cline attachment hauling an
ensilage suffer.
Road scrapers and Mowers
Following this will be road
scraper two hay mowers. lighting
system plant. hay baler. . Poison
implement Company hay binder.
wood saw, manure spreader. corr
crete mixer. washing machine. first
aid wagon and trailer with a stage
and carrying a motion picture camera.
In addition there will be locomotive
"a Ford Tractor equipped to operate
as q locomotive, its wheels the du-
plicate of train wheels. This machine
is proving popular in logging camps
and other places where light loco
motive may be operated without FIRE
hazard.
The caravan on arriving in town
will line up in semicircle, the
stage in the center. Speakers will
talk from this stage and at night
educational pictures will be flasher
on tae screen.
Army Rolling Kitchen.
The caravan will also include ar
army rolling kitchen and tents, cots
and other sleeping equipment for the
thirty-five persons accompanying the
+our rjke an army movement, the