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Show TRUCK FARMS Value of Power Wagons Now Appreciated by Agriculturists, Agri-culturists, He Avers. Kii'bt dow farmers arc taking more interest in motor trucks than ever before, be-fore, and tho next few years bid fair to ice a large number of trucks jojn tho equipment of farms in all parts of tho country, in the view of C. O. Ellsworth Ells-worth of the Pacific-Nash Motor company, com-pany, distributors of Nash passenger cars and trucks. "There is a good reason for this," says Mr. Ellsworth. "Tho farmers havo awakened to tho fact that a motor mo-tor truck will do moro than carry produce prod-uce to and from tho shipping point. "A close acquaintance with the passenger pas-senger automobile has shown farmers the economical advantage oi a motor vehicle. The manner in which tho farm tractor has demonstrated its utility has offered a splendid example of the gasoline gas-oline engine as a motive for field work. ' ' So, gradually it has come to the farmer that the motor truck is more than a freight-bearing automobile. He sees now that a" motor truck is, in reality, a hauling unit practically equivalent to a team of horses. Moreover, More-over, it is a better, less expensive hauling haul-ing device than a team. "Motor trucks will travel in the fields. They will gather the hay and grain and do all the other odd jobs about the farm, in addition to covering cover-ing the longer distances to town and railroad in quick order and at a big saving of time and money over horses. Moreovor, motor trucks do not draw on the resources of tho farm for food directly. ' ' During the last year or so prices for farm products havo been such as to make a farmer begrudgo the fodder for his livestock, lie could better till the soil for products that could be sold and buy gasoline than feed his team from his own laud. Many farmers farm-ers even bought their hay and grain, and thought they were money ahead by so doing. Meanwhile they did a little more figuring and then saw light on the motor truck. "Chiefly, the big reason why a motorized mo-torized farm yields more crops and more profit is because it eliminates wasto. The foodstuffs that are dani- aged during hauling by horses because of the slowness with which the teams must travel, also would feed thousands of people. "With one truck tho speed alone will save money, and that is but a fciDgle point. In hauling hogs or cattle to market this same speed eliminated a largo percentage of the weight shrinkage shrink-age that every cattleman figures on when he takes his animals to market. The truck carries them swiftly and without much, if any, loss. "Then there is the saving in the farmer's own time, which in a. rush of harvest season amounts to something. The trips that took a day with horses are made ia a few hours. More trips can be carried out in a given time because be-cause a truck needs no rest. It can be worked twenty-four hours a day, if necessary. "A truck is cheaper to keep than a team of horses in actual cost of fuel and oil as against the cost of feed at tho market price. It requires less care than a horse, although it cannot be neglected entirely if results are to be obtained." |