Show AUTOS ARE OWNED BY FARMERS Prosperous Agriculturists Are Partial to the Gasoline Driven Vehicles FITS NICELY INTO WORK MOTORS MAKE FARM DISTRICTS ALMOST INTERURBAN Careful estimate of the tho number of automobiles owned by farmers In the tho entire United States is I Why does the tho farmer want an auto Its It s Interesting says Weekly The bo farmer has more good reasons for having an auto than any other man It ItIs ItIs Is commonly said now that many city men are buying autos who cannot af at afford afford atford ford them Garage Garag and chauffeur costs are largely responsible for this con But Bat the farmer takes take to an antomo automo automobile bile buo quite like the proverbial duck to water In the first place he lie knows machinery He handles handle it all aU day long and has liaa to be his own repair man As Asa 8 a result he is his own chauffeur and ao Is la lets Ills son lion The auto fits Into the farm tarm work as It t made for it It replace the horae not a bit of it The horse goes into the field in the morning and ond andU U the e auto runs the milk to town or snakes makes a quick dash to the machine shop hop in town for a I part to repair the tho binder or the threshing machine It saves acres the tile time Ume in many instances as many irany farmers testify of a big gang ot vf men in the field in an emergency it pays paya for Itself In real service by the end of ot a I year or two And then comes the extra measure of value it gives In the pleasure sense Writer after atter writer has told of the dreariness of ot farm life the loneliness leading to Insanity It is b well Known that a great percentage of oC in insanity sanity is 18 among farm women The horses are needed In the fields everyday every everyday everyday day of good weather and on Sunday t Hoey ey need rest The farm tarm wife and family therefore are practically pris prisoners prisoners for a large part of ot the year They lire aTe at the mercy of distance Such a condition cramps them stunts them and drives the children to the cities in search h of more life liCe and companionship It has been the ead sad cry of ot the farm farmand farmand farmand and the village mage for fifteen years yeara that its ts best young men were going to the cities that they refused to stay on the tho farm because of lack of pleasure as aswell aswell aswell well as lack of opportunity Nowadays there Is no more cry about lack lak of opportunity on the farm tarm Six Sixteen Sixteen Sixteen teen automobile makers are advertising autos to the farmers In the 50 farm papers of the country and most of them are arguing that the automobile will keep the boy on the farm and make life lite more livable for tor the wife whose dreary round of labor has been th pity of the country Now the thee farmer with an auto can take tak his family for an evening call callor callor or lecture without using his horses lie can go to church on Sunday more regularly he can visit distant relatives and friends more frequently he can cango cango cango go to town oftener and more quickly Ore Dakota farmer who is extremely f fond and of hunting but lives forty miles I from the game district takes his son eon with him on Saturday during the sea season season son hOn and comes comos back Saturday night with a deer or two slung slun across the radiator and bubbling over with tales of his trip There are 1110 people living on farms and In towns of ot less than in this country countr This T ls means that over of ot our population is practically in inthe IntIle inthe the tIle country About of these are young oung people and they are just as asleen asleen leen Jeen for pleasure as young people any anywhere an where else That is 19 one big reason for forthe forthe forthe the automobile on the farm Ten or orf f f teen years ago farmers bought or organs organs organs gans for their daughters and buggies bu for their sons A great many of them the whole are re today buying autos for An entirely new meaning has been given to the village social life in ini i In fact the tho farmers themselves are the best champions of the auto |