Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-22 | Page 28 | This Farmer Banks on his Reo Truck

Tl FARMER BANKS 01 (MO TRUCK Few city bred people appreciate that the truck is enabling the farmer to raise better vegetables and grain, according to E. Isl. Grady, manager of the Grady Motor company, local Reo truck distrib-u distrib-u tors. "Manure fertilizer is worth eight dollars dol-lars a ton, right in the barnyard, to say nothing about cartage and every time I go to market I take back from the city with me from two to two-and-one-haif tons of fertilizer, -worth from $16.00 to $20.00," says a farmer who owns a Reo light truck. "This fertilizer has made my farm extremely ex-tremely productive, and worth very much more as an investment. With horses, I could not keep my farm fertilized, for the animals would be too tired to carry back a heavy load of fertilizer and I might be too tired to bother, myself, for the entire en-tire trip is about five hours longer. "Suppose I were still driving to market with a team. It would take two hours longer to get to market. For putting two horses in a stable, if I came in the even-l even-l ing, the fee would be 60 cents a horse ! SI. 20 for both horses. If I came in the morning, the fee would be 70 cents for each horse. I "Gardeners living the distance I do ! usually go to market at midnight or late in the afternoon. I leave at 2 a. m. with my Reo and arrive at the market at 3:30. With a team of horses I would have to leave at 12 o'clock and how I value those two hours' sleep, only one who tries do-I do-I ing a hard day's work and then rising at 2 a. m. can realize. A trip to market in my truck costs me SO cents for gaso- line and oil. On this investment I realize the profits on the increased produce mv J truck enables me to carry, the ?20.00 J worth of fertilizer, the five hours that I save. Would I go back to the old horse days? Not if I had to make a truck myself."