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Show ffilliCM EMIIIG1 Shortage of Help Overcome by Their Use in Agricultural Agricul-tural Districts. FUTURE IS ASSURED Tillers of Soil Utilize Power Wagons in Scheme for Big'ger Crops. There is no doubt now about tho future fu-ture of tho motor truck with the farmer of America, "William Fulton Melhuish, president and general manager of a large truck manufacturing company, has recently made a careful investigation of the prospects of tho farm busineES throughout America, and says unequivocally un-equivocally that the truck has come to the farmer as did the passenger car and that it has come to stay. The great progress being made in the improvement improve-ment of the highways throughout America Amer-ica is rapidly giving the motor truck rank as an agricultural necessity of the utmost importance. As the war clo?oa the business will grow enormously. Mr. Melhuish has found thRt many farmers have been forced to enter the ranks of motor truck owner?, due to the fact that so many of their farm helpers have been conscripted and drafted for the war. Means to offset this loss of help were necessary to maintain farm production, and many farmers who had looked upon the motor truck as impossible impos-sible have been perforce compelled to give it that attention which thev might not have given it for years had it nt been for the war. Trucks and Prosperity. Prosperity has come to the farmers and they have now no thought of anything any-thing but a continuance of their present pres-ent prosperous condition. Being sure of big returns for their crops, thev are naturally in position, Mr. Mefhuieh finds, to purchase trucks of every character. char-acter. The one and one-half ton truck seems to be a favorite among the tillers of the soil and it is fihis size business wagon that the Fulton company specializes spe-cializes in. Accordingly, this company has received an unusual number of requests re-quests for information from farmers in almost every state of the union, and considerable business has been done already. al-ready. The necessity of rapid work in rushing foodstuffs to the market to save their perishing and the Improvement Improve-ment of roads, for which the farmers are now working quite as eagerly as anyone else, together with intensive farming methods which have been adopted and which require truck transportation trans-portation to railroad and large centers, has brought a market which spells nothing noth-ing but prosperity for the motor truck manufacturers. Once a farmer has used truck transportation trans-portation in carrying out . his work he will use nothing else in the future, and the rapid train of his business will compel com-pel more and more trucks in the future. M r. Meihuiph finds that the most remarkable re-markable feature of the business is al- i readv and will always continue to bo in tho purchases made by the farming class. |