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Show ' LAN D TO HI' IS NOWSLOSAN Improved Roads Talk Gives Way to Reality of Construction. Nation's Network of Rural Trade Channels Will Save Millions. Let products fiow smoothly Iro.: ''land to moil,'' summarizes tli. United .States department of labor'.-point labor'.-point of view in offering :l solution v: the liih cost of living proLdein. ''The farm community," tlio depar, incut's report says, "should be linked with the city market. Kaihvay, waterway water-way and motor truck service should be effectively coordinated. Fsrrn products such as milk, etis, poultry, fruit and. eetables can, on To per cent of the farms, be carried in small containers ) aud sent, direct into the cities by j truck, thus relieving the burden on the railroads.'' t'pou readiuir the report the question ! which naturally arises is, are the farm-communities farm-communities awakeniua; to the need of doing their share in creating- the channels by which their products may flow smoothly from ' land to men i ' 1 An array of facts and figures is brought forth, by K. Farr. director of the I'irestoiie ship by truck bureau at Akron, Ohio, to support his affirmative answer. The bureau, which has sixty-three sixty-three branches in the Vnited States, keeps in touch, through these branches and its special investigators, with all matters affecting the motor truck and 1 its uses. - ; i Truck Offers Solution. j ' Motor trucks on improved highways, high-ways, ' says Mr. Farr. "offer the farmers of the nation their best opportunity oppor-tunity of starting products on a smooth-flowing smooth-flowing movement from 'land to togu.' And today the "United States is carrying on the biggest highway improvement im-provement campaign in its history and in the history of the world. At the same time the factories are turning out an increasingly large number of motor trucks, most of which will go to farmers farm-ers or into the service of farmers. Jt woud appear, then, that the farmer is awakening fuUv to his opportunities in tiiis respect. He is simplifying his end ox the distributive system by making it possible to speed hi products to market, thereby lessening the number of agencies through whose hands these products will pass, with the consequent narrowing of the circle of those who might be tempted to add to the price which will be paid by the consumer. :. "'Figures recently announced by the International Shipping Digest show that during the current twelve months $373,-000,000 $373,-000,000 will be expended on road improvements im-provements and maintenance of roads in the United States. From reliable sources it is estimated that in the same period the country will manufacture IS0.000 motor trucks. Farming States Lead. ' ' It is significant that the states which will spend most freely for better bet-ter highways and whieb manufacturers :epend upon to buy the most motor trucks arc states in which farming is predominant among the occupations. "'It is estimated that Kansas, which will spend $,0u0.000 on bettering its roads, will buy 20.000 motor trucks in the same period. .'Minnesota lias a road-building pro-grain pro-grain calling for the expenditure of 1 1,127,086. As an illustration of what the farmer in this great state thinks of the motor truck might be cited a statement state-ment recently issued by the Northwestern Northwest-ern National bank in Minneapolis, in which it is said that 'trucks in large numbers, intended for immediate use in marketing grain, are being sold to this large buying class (the farmers), and elevator scales in many places are being revamped to accommodate the growing fleet of farmers' trucks.' "Iowa, potential buyer of many motor mo-tor trucks, will spend $20.4'Jit5;i-Jt ou better highways. "Thus it goes. In the farming communities com-munities the coming of the motor truck has made the era of good roads talk give way to the era of good roads construction. con-struction. The farmer is doing his full share, to the best of his ability, in linking his communitv to the citv mar-kft,"' |