OCR Text |
Show Big Crops and Automobiles, j An automobile salesman finds that the surest recorder of Ihe financial situation in the country is the briskness of the sale of automobiles. lie sold iu the vjeinitv of Quincy, 111.. 100 cars, of, a $750 make, and just half of . them went to farmers. This, he says, gives an idea of how important "bumper crops" are to the manufacturer of automobiles. The year 1915, in the greater part of the United States, although there are sections sec-tions not so fortunate, has been one of "bumper rops." The automobile manufacturers manu-facturers are doing an unusually good business In the country as a result. And prosperity that means business for automobile auto-mobile manufacturers means business for every purveyor. The United States is the oqlv countrv in which the ownership of automobiles by farmers Is a common thing. American farmers are not as scientific as those di Europe or of Asia. But they possess vastly greater acreage of land per capita and their business is operated upon a larger scale. They rode good horses when the -horse was the only farm tractor, and drove good hand -made vehicles, always alive to the importance of the right material ma-terial and workmanship in the buggy or barouche. Nowadays they are buying automobiles wifh the same shrewdness, not always the cheapest make, but visually 7nachines a t moderate prices a nd of proved quality. Louisville Courler-Jour-nal. |