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Show EFFICIENCY IN Finns Rubber Man States That Auto Is Playing Great Part in Farm Development "Probably never in the history nf the American farmer has he been confronted con-fronted v illi such urgent need for the highest efficiency in tho handling ol the- farm as this year' says H. A. (Athens, general sales manager of the Federal Rubber company of Cudahy, V is "The shortage of farm labor in the 1 nlted states loony is estimated at 2 000,000. It is : year when Waste time and effort never meant so much The need of ibc world today Is Increased In-creased food production to lower living liv-ing costs and an Increase in ail linos o,' production .mo distribution. "As greal a part as ihe motor truck will plaj in this urgency, It will not have done Its full part unless it Is ooulppod with pneumatic tires For In pnuematias, especially on the farm, is the creator tract ion possible in mud or spnd making accessible roads denied to the solid-tired truck; wider and faster distribution because of the hiph spoods possible with trucks equipped with pneur.iatlcr, to f?y nothing of economy of operation, SPCED COUNTS. "And ,?piTd 111 iho farm mean;-more mean;-more than ro many more trips a day. It means less lime away from th farm, loss possibility of shrinkage or actual Ions of prrishables. It means, in a word, a gnul n.itlonal snvintr at a time when labor cn the farm is scarce and the v. ork hpqyy, "Conservation in tb- tinrr- spent in haulage means simply conservation of man power, that vital element so sadly sad-ly reduced on fhe farm today. "Every city tooay lias its food pro": lcm. Tho quicker dispatch and reduced re-duced Ho.'s through shrinkage and actual ac-tual waste of pfishablos, me.de poa-Bible poa-Bible by the pneumatic tired truck, means that much greater srrvice to humanity. FAftMCR AWAKENING. j'Tho farmer, too. is avakoning to ihc possibilities of the pAoumalic tired truck I have information of one farmer who eonsjrued two days in get' ting to market with a tram o. horses. His pneumatic tired track now makes the run in Ir.-s Mian three hours. "I have Information of another stockman who hauled lHui) head of hogs to market in a single day with motor (rucki-. Lost yrar only r.bout one-fourth of 1 per cent of the tarniers owned trucks. Cut the percentcge is growinq by lep.ps and bounds "The rapi.) growth Is due largely to the Increased efficiency of the truck on the farm made possible by pneu malic tires." 00 RVSS JUST AS y.. I.:, w h 1 n ON 1 in:- ; LEGS WINCH ENDEK, Mass. Maybe yon think you've heard ail Iho flivver stories, but- I When Cilf:on A. lVn!ls. driver of the parcel pi ,1 and F. D., hopped out of his c;u In front of White's store to nui-se ft stalled engine he found out why everybody along the road had been shouting a"d pointing at him. The left front wheel of the cut was absent without official leave. Cliff thought the wheel must he near at hand, but It was found near '.h- post office, more than a mile away "And I'll be hornSwaggled,"' Daniels Dan-iels told tho boys at White's, if Us, absence made an apparent difference i In' the riding qualities ol the machine ' |