Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1918 — LARGE DISPLAY OF IMPLEMENTS [ARTICLE]

LARGE DISPLAY OF IMPLEMENTS

UNFAVORABLE weather reduces ATTENDANCE AT IMPLEMENT DISPLAY. A number of the leading manufacturers of farm machinery have had on exhibition at the Gayety Theatre, this week a line of implements that represent the very best farming tools now on the market. Most of these lines are handled by the dealers of this city and considerable money has been expended by them and their companies to make this exhibition the very best possible. An implement that is fast becoming a great factor in the farming industry of this country is the tractor. A number of the very best tractors made were to have been seen at this exhibition. Besides tractors, there were tractor plows, grain and corn binders, corn planters, cultivators and many other implements and of the very latest improved make. The men who were here to represent their respective companies gave some splendid talks. These men are well posted and have had very broad experience in their respective lines and their talks were not only in explanation of the excellent pointe of the implements they sell, but were of such a nature that they were of very great benefit to all who heard them. Undoubtedly many are not familar with the great expense the large mplement manufacturers go to to improve their products and also to assist the farmer in every way possible. They realize that the farmer must not only have the very best implement but that he must make use i>f the very best methods in his work f the farm is to be a paying proposition. ' Every farmer in Jasper County should have given considerable time to this exhibition 1 and if is too bad that steps were not taken even under these unfavorable weather conditions to have given this enterprise the pa? tronage it so much deserved.