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back were frugal people. They had to 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. 
So they 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. In his little 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 ture — that his efforts had brought prosperity and ease 
school, and ease the labor of their parents. not only to his little circle of friends, but to many 
It’s a long story of how the village teacher saved a thousands more, 
nickel here and a dime there, worked early 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 New Idea the plans. My mother put every cent of her little insur- 
leader today. ance into making it go — and the New Idea was so 
So much better was it than the old method of wagon valuable to the farmer that today he recognizes the 
tail distribution that the sturdy farmers called it “Op- New Idea Spreader as the greatest aid to permanent 
penheim’s New Idea.” After a while, when the v/ork fertility of his fields. 
B. a OPPENHEIM, Mgr, 
NEW IDEA SPREADER CO 
**Spreader Specialists** 
Main Office and Factory:—Coldwater, Ohio 
Branches: Harrishurg, Pa., Columhus, O., Indianapolis, Ind., JacJzson, Mich., Chicago, 
111., St. Louis, Mo., Minneapolis, Minn., Omaha, Neb., Kansas Cit^, Mo., 
Guelph, Ont., Canada. 
^EWIDEA 
SPREADER^ 
Swartz Creek Mich. 
We bought one of your spreaders about four weeks apto and we have 
used it ill spreading nearly all kinds of manure. We liave just finished 
hauling out about 100 loads of sheep manure, which evei-yone knoivi is the 
hardest kind of manure to siii ead and your machine did the work the best 
of any spre.ader 1 over saw work, leaving no buiielies, but spreading it all 
very even and throwing no manure whatever on the driver As to draft, 
we have only had a span of colts, one three years and the other tour years 
old to haul it and have no use whatevt*!' for the third horse. 1 believe it to 
be the strongest built machine on the market and all pans are easv to get 
at iu case it should ever need any repairing. ELMKR GOTSH ALL. 
Hamilton, Mo. 
Ibought one of your spreadei’s about three years ago and I consider it 
one of the best biiys'l ever made in the implement line. I didn’t think at 
the time I had ever seen a spreader that was euual to yours and I am still 
of the same opinion. I have given it some pretty severe tests, but it has 
stood all of them and has not cost me a penny for repairs. No farraei with 
40 acres or more can atford to do without one ol your spreaders, and there 
is no machine on the farm that wall pay for itself as soon as the spreader. 
I can safely recommend your siireader to anyone. 
S. H. McLain. Box 08. 
New Richmonp, INP. 
VTe purchased one of your spreaders last winter and have given it very 
hard usage for several months without cost for repairs. 
Hauling several humdred loads of wet, heavy manure from the cattle 
barns during the winter months over rough, frozen ground is a severe test 
for any spreader, and we believe we shall have less expenseand longer life 
in your machine than any other make, and we have used about all Of them. 
We are especially,pleased with the even spreading accomplished, there being 
absolutely no dumping or slugging no matter how high the load is piled. 
KllAWNEE PRAIRIE FARMS CO.. 
W. A. Withrow, Sec‘y. 
