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& 4 i i b j years ago, Joseph Oppen- teacher. Studious and qhuiet, he yet had a personality that appealed, for he was helpful to all. Farming then wasn’t 8o profitable as now, and the women and children had to work in the fields. ; The Settlers who came to 'this country generations back were frugal people. They had fo be,. Yet they were far-sighted, too. They knew that land could be exhausted— they knew it must be fed if it was to continue feeding them. Sothey wasted little fertilizer. Barnyard manure was their reliance--as it is yet. Hence it was scattered on the fields with great care. My father made a hand in this labor occasionally. The children from his school bent weary backs over the task. Their drudg- ery appealed to his heart. He knew what it meant in aching muscles, neglected schooling and dwarfed oppor- tunity. He knew that such machines as were available neither shredded the manure nor spread it fine and wide. So he set out to build a machine that would do this | of spreaders last year, is a story my father could and save the hard work. It wasn’t easy. Money was | hardly believe if he were alive today to hear it, , scarcer than this generation understands. Inhislittle| =~ But his big heart would swell with pride that he school house he worked out the idea he had — to make | had made so great a contribution to American agricul- a machine that would help keep his boys and girls in | tyre — that his efforts had brought prosperity and ease . school, and ease the labor of their parents. not only to his little cifcle of friends, but to many kK It’s a long story of how the village .eacher saved a | thousands more. : X : nickel here and a dime there, worked _arly mornings He lived only to see the business begun. At his - and late nights and eventually built a spreader that | death it fell to me—a boy of fifteen— to carry out carried the principles that make the Nisco the | hisplans, My mother put every cent of her little insur- leader today. : ance into m it go~—and ‘- the Nisco was so So much better was it than the old method of wago! valuable to the farmer that today he recognizes the tail distribution that the sturdy farmers called it “Op- | Nisco Spreader as the greatest aid to penheim’s New Idea.” After a while, when the work | fertility of his fields. 7 had been brought to a practical stage, we called ourselves the Because this business is an inheritance of the brave effort i New Idea Spreader Company and from-this we get “Nisco. of my father to contribute something worth while, it is equall 2 Working out this idea to perfection in the midst of poverty | dear to me. "And because of his ideal, this machine never Ol cost_great sacrifice and much toil, but ever upxiemost in the | be less than the best we can build. ] e s s T e Lt ok |, 00, aflo el of 6 supricty boter. than vo an b e was bui 5 T v phan They were so practical that he protected the child of his brain | 204 OUr free ping Mother Nature” gives some new 1 A and valuable information on the use of manure. Send th cou- By g;tents, patents that have revolutionized the npreadgr in- | pon for them today and see how Joseph Oppenhein he - ustry. How made ; \ most notable contribution of ‘his generation to the American < by e ek ot whic o ovs e e S e | S, o S N sl o “yous B. C. OPPENHEIM, Mgr. e e NEW IDEA SPREADER CO. ' “‘Spreader Specialists’’ ' : : M.- Harrisburg, Pa., Columbus, O., Indienapolis, Ind., Jackson, M. Chisago, o SN . / {ll., St. Louis, Mo., Minneapolis, Minn., Omaka, Neb.,” Kansas City, Mo., TR Guelph, Ont., Caneda. . :