Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1910 — FARM LABOR SAVERS [ARTICLE]

FARM LABOR SAVERS

Thirty ftcras of Maclilnery Wil. Be At State Fair. Hundreds of Indiana farms owe their labor-saving methods and home comforts to ideas obtained at the State Fair, and the coming exposition is going to show the newest offerings of machinery for farm use. This exhibit will cover thirty acres of ground and will include scores of contrivances for reducing the work and increasing the output of the farm, and there will be hundreds of machines for making lighter the work of farm women and which will give them household conveniences which make the country home rank in appointments with the city mansiori. Methods of providing heat,, light, water and sanitation will be shown. Rapid and profitable ways of doing dairy work will be exploited In exhibits. Concrete, now an important material on every modern farm, will have its many uses shown in exhibits. One exhibitor will show a complete model farm ■with the model buildings made of this material. In heavy machinery the fair will have many acres of exhibits. Last year the makers of threshers by agreement did not show their machines at the fair, but they are coming to the next fair in greater force than ever. E. S. Tuell of Corydon has charge of the mechanical department. That the mechanical display is going to be on an enormous scale was made evident early in July, when all of the regular space was assigned to exhibittors, and since then there Jiasdbeeiu, clamor on the part of exhibitors for ground room. Harvesting machinery, power outfits, vehicles of all kinds, everything of use to the farmer, will have prominence in the acres of machinery that will be seen.