Show A implement C company kompany marks anniversary manure spreader first built in 1889 the story of american free enterprise ter prise Is graphically illustrated by two buildings at the coldwater ohio plant of the new idea division manufacturing corporation which this year is celebrating its golden anniversary one of these buildings actually a series of connected buildings covers over 15 acres and houses square feet of manufacturing facilities newly expanded it boasts ono one of the most modern foundries in the nation and a full complement of equally modern production machines and processes it Is the plant in which new idea produces its specialized line of i farm implements and equipment 4 nj august Reut schilling who has been with the company 47 years stands nostalgically at the forge in the museum a replica of the original plant and it Is the same forge at which lie he worked in his early bays with the company across the street is a small wooden frame building occupying just 1440 square feet of space in it are an old forge and several simple machines of the kind used for manufacturing fac turing in the early this is an almost exact replica of the modest structure in which joseph oppenheim first began building his now famous manure spreader in 1899 in the nearby village of maria stein ohio the communities for miles around coldwater and sales personnel throughout the nation know it as the museum large letters painted on the front wall identify the building as new idea spreader works 1899 inside are the four rooms in which oppenheim and six helpers fashioned the first one of the most important and most widely used implements ever devised by the farm implement industry the first room as you enter was the forge and machine room containing a forge hand shear hand punch press hand threading machine small high speed drill benches and water tank for cooling a gasoline engine hold held finer type of beef animals experiments in breeding range cattle show that animal for animal antal anial m al are a finer type than the purebred stock from which they stem originally in making that assertion a livestock spec specialist laust claims there Is a definite advantage that could result from planned cross breeding of 0 beef animals and lack of uniformity of color is ii not an indication of inferior market yield |