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Show FARMERS GONSIDEH AUTO IISPEPLE Answers to Haynes Questionnaires Ques-tionnaires Reveal Cars Are Badly Needed. The American farmer considers the passenger automobile ns an indispensable indispen-sable part of his farm equipment. Without the automobile the farmer would be handicapne.l to an extent which would seriously affect the highly high-ly important food supply. These lads wero set torth conclusively conclu-sively 1 V farmers in their replies to the nuesiion'uaires sent out by (he Haynes Automobile company recently. The Idlers were sent to 1000 owners, picked nt rniiAom from every slate. The fact that approximately one seventh sev-enth of the replies were from farmers indicates the extent, to which hic,h-radn hic,h-radn cars are used by agriculturists. n A W isconsin farmer states that it would bo impossible to Ret alone without with-out his car. "I nm operating two farms twenty-five twenty-five miles apart. This would bo impossible im-possible without the Haynes," writes ;,n Idaho fanner. A South Dakota farmer says: "T own several farms, and do not see how I could handle them without a car." The war has made c,rcnt. inroads on farm labor, callinc for the utilization of eery available mechanical device. A Kansas farmer who iisch his ear to combat com-bat this shoring- says: ''1 would be unable to run a farm now, as scarce -is fa i in lubor is, wit limit n car. These replies am represcnlat i e of the many received by the Haynes companv com-panv from farmers." The replies have proved beyond doubt that the efficiency effi-ciency now demanded of the farmer cannot be attained without the antonio-bile. antonio-bile. Many mentioned the savinc iu time when 'yoinn for machinery, Tepairs aud supplies. Almost without exception excep-tion the farmers declared that their efficiency ef-ficiency would lie reduced if deprived of their cars. . . |