Show 6 6 I TRUCKS WILL MOVE I BUMPERS BUMPER WHEAT CROP I By Newspaper Association CLEVELAND July 31 Motor Motor trucks helped save Verdun Just as they are ore showing their unequaled efficiency over there they are going to help win the tho war over hero here season la Is at hand and within a a. few days threshing machines are going to start the summer Bummer drive on the wheat wheatfields wheatfields wheatfields fields of this country Today the farmer is the man man of the house for It Is right up to him to furnish the food not only for the allies but for the United States of this country are de determined determined de- de to minimize waste in the 1918 wheat crop Through County Agricultural Agricultural tural Agent Jordan the word i Is being passed d all over e the county to thresher r hands that l per e cent n e efficiency I e y In operating operating oper oper- aUng machines will be expected They are also advocating the extensive use of trucks In moving th the grain This food must be moved The millions of bushels of wheat to be harvested must be gotten to the elevators and mills as as' quickly a. a as possible and this transportation tion problem must be solved to a a. great extent by trucks The days dayis of the horse for such work is passing fast from the standpoint of ef- ef and food waste for it is stated by authorities on the subject that a a. horse consumes nore than the production power of five acres of land a year The motor notor truck has brought the farmer In closer touch with the city In that he can g e et at his products to the market quicker and easier If It he Is shipping by rail it means that his garden stuff hogs sheep grain or whatever he may be shipping must be handled four times at least It is IC first loaded to a wagon ta taken taken taken ta- ta ken to the freight house unloaded and then loaded on the car When it reaches the city It Is unloaded from the car In Into o oa a wagon and a again unloaded at the wholesale wholesale wholesale whole whole- sale house or wherever It might go With the motor truck the product Is loaded reaches reaches' its destination in most cases e sooner than n when e shipped by rail thI thIn a f and unloaded n In t this l way it Is handled n twice and Is in better condition The The- farmer stock man merchant and manufacturer is now realizing the ne necessity necessity necessity ne- ne of trucks They are relieving the railroads of much of their burden on hauls up to and In many cases over miles Food Is going to be a big factor in winning winning win win- ning fling this war against the Hun and the themo mo motor or truck is going to be the real factor In getting ettin the food to Its destination |