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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



THE PROCESSION OF THE AGES. 



On first thought it would seem difficult to crowd 

 centuries into a Saturday afternoon, but this feat was act- 

 ually accomplished last Saturday, November llth, on the 

 -500-acre farm, which covers the area immediately beyond 

 the great plant of the Oliver Plow Works as you look 

 southwest toward the open country from the railroad 

 station at South Bend, Indiana. 



Here it was that the procession of ages wended its 

 way across the field and was caught in one motion picture 



ing three 14-disk Deering harrows and three 12-marker 

 Keystone grain drills. 



We never saw the grand caravan with its many 

 teams of camels and elephants that once made its majestic 

 and pompous journeys from St. Petersburg to Peking, 

 but we venture to say that the International and Oliver 

 procession rivaled any procession of caravans of former 

 times. 



The back yard of the great plow plant, as the Oliver 

 farm is known, was the scene of the world's greatest 





Three 45-Horse Power Mogul Gasoline Tractors Pulling Fifty-five Flows. 



that can be projected on the screen in fifteen minutes' time. 

 The procession consisted of a wooden mold-board plow 

 used in the days of the Revolution and for many years 

 owned by Daniel Webster; a one-horse Oliver Goober steel 

 beam chilled plow; the Famous Oliver No. 40 chilled plow; 

 the James Oliver No. 11 sulky plow; the Oliver No. 28 

 medium lift sulky plow; the Oliver No. 1 high lift sulky 

 plow : the Oliver No. 1 center draft high lift gang plow ; 

 the Oliver No. 22 low lift gang plow; the International 20- 

 horse power tractor pulling six 14-inch plows ; one 45-horse 

 power Mogul pulling ten 14-inch plows ; one 45-horse power 

 Mogul pulling twelve 14-inch plows; one 45-horse power IHC 

 'Mogul gasoline tractor pulling eighteen 14-inch plows; 

 and three 45-horse power IHC Mogul gasoline tractors 

 pulling fifty-five 14-inch plows, and an IHC tractor pull- 



triumph in agriculture. The great Mogul gasoline trac- 

 tors stood three abreast in front of a long row of shimmer- 

 ing steel not of bayonets but of shining plow shares; 

 the engines seemed to be actually fretting champing at 

 the bits, as it were to get under way; the mufflers were 

 sounding the reveille not to summon battalions of sold- 

 iers to arms, but to herald abroad man's conquest over 

 nature. Finally, everything is in readiness and the field 

 marshal gives the signal and they are off in a "bunch," 

 marking time with the chug! chug! chug! of the mufflers, 

 and move forward with a precision and stateliness that rival 

 the King's own guards. 



This outfit plowed fifty-five furrows, 14 inches wide, or 

 64.16 feet. On the spur of the moment, one would think 

 this great outfit would be unwieldy, 'but the truth is that 







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