Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 3, 1916, Page 12

+sitated The debating societies that used to discuss such questions as which is the wother of the chick, the hen that laid the egg or the one that hatched it might take up the problem whether old earth has changed more than the methods of the cultivation of her soil. It was a long step from the forked stick to such rude implements as the modern savage now employs. From the power of 100 years ago to the up-to-date tractor of Nebraska was another. Since the beginning of the use of tractors in farm work Fremont has been one of the cities where there have been demonstrations to show “Missourians” and others the supe- riority of the new method. This year the demonstration will be from August 7 to 11. Seven others in the middle west or south are an- nounced between July 17 and Sep- tember 8. There were successful demonstra- tions in Fremont in 1913, and again in 1914 and 1915 under the auspices of The Twentieth Centu:y Farmer. In none of the various other demonstrs- tions has there been the interest or the attendance at Fremont. One rea- son for this is the geographical loca- tion of the city. No town is closer to the center of the great wheat and corn belt, and perhaps nowhere could be found men with the zest of the heads of the Commercial club of that city in carrying through the many necessary details in connection with The Twenticth Century Farmer's big cnterprise. The necessity of a tractor on a big farm is too apparent to require| yers, poets, politicians and edit : T - further argument. Farm help is be-| will be only hplppy hu:blndme;. 1978 the farming of .the presantidayjpouid R l[in;;n:\ Llflxm{‘iilm;:gnthc sup”ln—ig coming yearly scarcer, and more un- boT:;o‘;"u{-[wm“Cd 01‘1’ a fau-ml in his | seem .almhon like fun. 'Thef‘cs \velrr: Fremont Prospenty Ten ;ar'rm:s T !:or theleitys ‘fiilmflfilfl‘ " certain. As the soil becomes partial- | 20y100d- He remembers only too|rests in the work, yes, when “Spec At the Postoffice i e ly exhausted near the top deeper plowing becomes essential. And, above all, perhaps, is the element of time. Like the early morning and late afternoon rushes on the street cars in our cities, work on the land i t it is | at the ends of furrows or at corners,! gang plow. Now comes the tractor,|found of prosperity than in the post-|issued for 1915 amounted to $108,- f.nl::'h:,:l“’ed'.' .t;.':efi:::‘ ':::mb:_ wha're the filow had to be carried at|and ug!o can tell what the inventor |office, where g\I \% Smails officiates | 570.66; for 1914 the corresponding fig- NTING 0 be obtain psing arm's lengt! Lpfl'hlpl for several feet. | of the future will devise to give us well-appointed | ures were $100,065.50; money orders tween plowing and planting must be shorter. So, too, must there be greater expedition at the time of harvest. There has been tos much waste in the past. ‘The use of the tractor will savk much of such misspent energy in the future. The tractor is not eat- ing its head off in weather when farth work is not possible. There is a saving not only in meén, but n horses and mules. The countries that lead in agricul- ture are the ones that must carry the white' man's burden. Aad in the fierce competition of the t day the latest, most-improved machinery must be employed. - There ‘are por- tions of the world where old men, children, and, still more frequently, women are yoked sometimes together —sometimes to animals, in the work of cultivating the soil, as well as at the time of harvest. But they are not in_the competitive class. The tractor will do the work of many horses and mules at much less expense. It never takes fright and runs away, With proper lubrication a machine will last for years. It is steady, reliable and powerful, and, lccofd‘l\. to demand, pulls from one or two to twenty plows, It will work ' when the broiling hot sun of July or August makes toil b‘ animals almost impossible. And that is when much of the land ought to be torn up for the fall-sown grain. The machine should be a boon to the southerner, where summer lasts nine months of the year, and much of the negro labor is 80 absolutely shiftless and unreliable. Under the old regime the plowing of a section of land was only the be- ginning. It all had to be harrowed, and fm‘uentl{ a heavy storm neces- ong intervals between jobs. Sometimes the ground should have been plowed again, it was so hard. With the tractor the disc or harrow may be hitched to the plow as a trailer—sometimes also a roller, thus bringing much closer the tilpg for putting in the seed. Tn silo filling the tractor is ready for service again. this work as in the others, co-opera- tively, a number of farmers owning the cutter and with the use of the | tractor accomplishing the work with greater facility and speed. Time and labor are saved, too, at | hiring |8 a traveling crew, the farmer puts his | B threshing time. Instead o& tractor into service. As is well known, the threshing machine with its steam engine, has in the past jour- neyed about over the wheat belt, stopping a week or more, as was nec- essary, on one farm. order of things there is co-operation again among the farmers, the tractor | § being owned at home, and only the! threshing machine needs to be car-| Not only | are fewer men and teams used now ! ried about the country. to haul the grain to the elevators, but time is saved by the decreased | number of trips necessary in going over the land. The tractor hauls a number of loaded wagons at one time to the nearest market place. In balin quired. It may be used in | ™ In the new |§ hay, too, power is re- o} The tractor and hay press ) | least of these possibly, is its utiliza- tion in road muking, when spring time comes again, etter highways are becoming yearly more ing more of a necessity, and the same economy |of time and energy seen on the grain |field can be obtained by the use at spare moments or hours, of this labor- saving device upon the roads. The time was, at first, when thel tractor could be used only on the biggest farms. It was a clumsy, awk- ward machine to manage. But im- provements in the engine, the cutting | down in the size, as well as in the | cost, have made the tractor available | and more and more a necessity upor | farms of 150 to 300 acres. Like the | variations in the use of the automo- | bile for pleasure there have come more practical and less expensive | motors for the farm. | Whep the tractor is used in farming | operations, however, certain changes | must be made in many features of | the work. It will be found advantag- | eous to have fields longer and nar-| rower than formerly. It is not so| easy to turn a tractor on a corner as | when a mule is the motive power, To use land profitably, therefore, many farmers grow crops of hay about their plowed crops. It is also true that the tractor will not climb a hill as well as it can descend one, though| the argument that they can not be used on rolling land is baseless. There is a limit to the amount of a tractor’s | power, and sometimes some of the plows have to be taken off when the machine is sent up too steep a hill. It is true, too, that though the trac- tor can not be scared and does not | have to be watered or fed, it can not | be whipped into greater effort. The use of more machinery in agri- | culture will keep more boys on the | farm that might have gone away to| the cities to become failures, incom- | petents or criminals, from their in- | aptitude for their changed surround- | ings. It may, too, occasionally keep ! budding genius from blossom, and some men that might have been law- well the motive power in plowing a small stony patch of New finmp-hire land full of roots, While one boy or man drove “Jack and Speck” the other held the plow. There were tre- mendous shocks when the plow point hit a stone, making the sparks fly on a dark day. There were strenuous lifts To many who had such experiences G. H. HODGES THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1916. began to pant, because being lfaster than his mate, he bore the brunt of the burden, It seemed, too, as if this ox learned to pant unnecessarily, be- cause of the short respite he realized he would get. Such was old time hrminf. Then came the riding plow and later the something better? Fremont Granite Works. See Them at Their New Location--320-26 North Main Street . Large Stock of Finished Monuments Set Up in Qur Yard to Select From e mmuA‘w;'m:Jfl mmmumrmu|uu11m1mnmn||wemmmum il V“V ; [ | ! I it THE PLANT OF THE FREMONT BREWING COMPANY, FREMONT, NEB. ESTABLISHED 1890--BREWERS OF THE FAMOUS FREMONT PILSANAR BEER Optimism is in the air in Fremont. Business is generally good. But; there is substantial basis for this| feeling. Nowhere is any better proof in_a prmg, stone, The building. assistant postmaster HODGES & BALDWIN Est. 1886 mail; nine clerks and four rural car- E;, riers. Two janitors are employed. |£ Only last month an additional clerk was allowed by Uncle Sam, the first addition for five years The postoffice receipts for 1915 were $§5,947.23; for 1914 the figures |? were only $47,057.73. money orders paid in 1915 amounted to $85,744.59; L L. W. BALDWIN The New Fall Creations Are Ready for Your Inspection Every woman’s success, whether busi- ness, social or professional, is largely due to her appearance. Realizing this important fact this shop is ready to show you the newest suits and coats that are worn by the leading women of fashion in all metropolitan cen- ters. When outfitted at ‘Nagelstock’s” you can move in any society and no matter where you go you will feel comfortable, as our apparel bespeaks the true woman of well-bred style. “PEOPLE LIKE TO TRADE HERE” KA O EMPRESS THEATER | THE HOUSE OF FEATURES 419 North Main St. Frement, Neb. THE BEST IN PHOTOPLAYS WITH THE WORLD'S GREATEST STARS * EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) ADMISSION 5 CENTS AND 10 CENTS THE COOLEST PLACE IN TOWN. n i TS Ideal Laundry Co., JOHNSON & CO., Proprietors. A S PAG Office and Works, Corner Broad and Fifth Sts. are taken together to the field, and aiter the timothy, clover or alfalfa has been raked into windrows, the tractor is of immenesc assistance in getting it into the required shape ! for market. With this added service there is opportunity to save much of the straw that has hitherto been wasted. This is now utilized by the baler and tractor, working in co-op- . eration. Some of the material is ) on the field to be spread and ed for a fertilizer, but a large d be baled and taken to . the barns to be used for winter bed- 1 fall the mtuctor can be ter a Brew Hot Day at the Tracto ' Show, Drik This Cool, eng While in Fremont, Order a Case Sent to Your Home. Any Bar in Fremont Will Take Your Order TRACTOR SHOW VISITORS Are invited to come out and go through our plant, which is con- i s ST meal by the big machine. be used, too, in pumping water house and stock, and perhaps ‘ways the new “toy” can to pay for its keep, Not the L ol R i 0 )