OCR Text |
Show T tsLM-- THE SALT LAKE ' TRIBUNE,- - SUNDAY CORNING, MARCII 16 r? Truck and Tractor, Highly Developed Transport Vehicles, Have Progressed More Than Building of Good Highways i 2(5, 5, jrafesrsAS-- r 7i 1921. l IV AW. nn otive Power Is Greatest Aid to Farmer in Fight Against High Cost of Crop Production; Auto Is Newest Means of Conveyance. . By F. W. FENN, Secretary of the Board of Truck Committee, National Automobile 4 . Chamber of sje's Commerce, agricultural, acres, eliminating surplus ii a human farm labor, and In harvesting so that It Inception la production may exceed consumption, Is recollections. Our by motive power on the farm, which dates absolutely essential if we expect to get of early around high price. back to the caravan Egypt the donkey of Svria and Pales- Tractor Is Paramount. tine and via the highways of Rome jtrp In seeding the soil and In harvesting the to the dawn of Christianity. crop,' the tractor is paramount. In that the Its it moves three or four times ns fast as a purpose Transportation has for moving of something from one place to horse and throws up three, four and five another from the place where It Is least furrows at a time. After the crop has needed to where It has a greater value. been and It Is especially so If The cheapest known transportation Is the farm lies back In the hills, cost of on the backs production Is again lowered through the that done by the coolie and of negroes carrying raw product from ability of the farmer with his motor the Interior of Africa to the coast truck to rush the product to town, allowIn America the evolution of transpor- ing him to return to his farm and give tation has developed more rapidly than the better portion of his day to further In any other portion of the world. , production. The pathfinder which carried the pioTo show how the motor truck neer over the western plains and opened farm labor, as well as horses, letdisplaces US take tip a vast empire to cultivation was the the case of a farmer hauling hay to marox team and the prairie schooner ket, a town six miles away. By extra There are today three main forms Vit effort with his hired man, the farmer ' transportation, as. follows: hauls loads of from 3000 to 4000 pound Bv water, by rail, bv highway, of baled imy, making two trips a day and Transportation on the waterways ha a possible total of 18,000 pounds. rome up from antiquity, while on rail delivering With a two-to- n truck traveling from tt first made its appearance In the early to fifteen miles an hour and on - twelve, which could be loaoed at least 5000 part of the nineteenth century. pounds, ten trips a day could be made, Waterways First. and one farmer could thus deliver a total The waterways run In the course laid of 50,0u0 pounds, as against 16.000 pounds bat that two farmers would have delivered down for them by nature's laws, course cannot be changed to suit the using horses. This Illustration Is an acconvenience of any man or society of men tual fact, having been in operation in it cannot b brought to your door. It Kansas Think of the tonnage that such flows onward, serving only those who a truck is all the while creating for raillive contiguous to Its banks. It would road carload lot shipments! And through modern methods of farming, think of bemseless as a line of communication the dtstance from It were it not for the profit the wrmer Is receiving from for the fact that the product left at certain very little extra effort! And of the ten- has In low can be carried to destination over dency which this larger ransportation systems operating on steel ering the cost to consumer! rails and over the nations highways The railroad, while It has opened up a Truck Lowers II. C. L. vast empire. Is limited in Its capacity for I,ef us see how the motor truck enters the-Demandervlng The engine can carry the train Into the matter of lowering food costs in only where man has laid the rails Af- the case of potatoes, which from ter years of experience In transportation $10 and $11 a barrel to $8 and drop $6 a barby rail there are many communities and In western New York. Another good vast areas that are today unsirved by rel illustration tho rase Mason la of rail trensDortstlon. Lvrgen rural sections Iowa, wherd consumers were able to City purvehicls had to depend upon potatoes arriving bv motor truck for their necessities and had to draw chase $1 25 per bushel instead of $1 76, which at of poor their own products .over miles for, like had been the price prior to the motor country roads to the railroad, delivery. the river, the railroad could not go be- truck As an Interesting glance into the profyond Its course. civilisation itability of shipping from the farm to Without transportation city by motor truck, as a feeder to cou'd not exist, or at least could not ad- the the railways and as a machine for speedfor It the natural law that ing vance,' up production, we will turn our atIt avuat advance or lie forever burled and tention to Indianapolis, where motor environment. stagnant In Its own Knitted all trucks have transformed an unimportant communTo be healthy and strong center one of the first In-Into d atookyard ities must be hound together by that Here In one night 500 motor class livable transportation. tie, called can trucks .whose combined mileage waa 2500 Why? .Because no one community and desires, hauled 8S00 hogs, valued at $200 000, Into produce everything It needs own the stookvards at this poLnt between midnarrow of It Its out rise nor' can and dawn of one day. suwoundlngs and grow unless It can have night It not Interesting to note that the oitv freso and uninterrupted Intercourse, receives most of It suporHv with adlacent groups of people, but of Milwaukee of milk from farms twenty-fiv- e to ply with far distant points. bv motor truck miles As a away fifty been which have The natural resources scatsample of the saving effected, the prolJ hss'c for our existence are widely of the largest dairy comtered and deeply hidden They were so dent ofof one that vkdnitv says that one mar panies foundathe very distributed as to form which have to be tion of life of various type and race with two horses, every other dav, formerly hauled rf: reroute. while climatic conditions made changed can a about dav. Now a two-to- n of forty the things truck will haul about fusible tb development W8 gallon cans w need for food. making three trips in place of one In that city milk usually costs about 11 Cbmmerce Expanded. cents a while In other cities It n,nrt lng t0 13 cents quart, did not take the or more This means a av Ing the for needed to the people of Milwaukee of over $1,000,-00- 0 IV consumption that It Take, a year. f pnoducts of other lands and race Instance, rubber, coffee, copper "and trf mineral and lumber of various types Time Saved. and ws have only a beginning of a As a time saver and as a revenue profor existence. lohg list of things we need snd ducer, the tractor la the greatest meconsumpBat In between productionof the power of chanical device which has yet been pretion comes the necessity of shifting and sented to the farmer. It should be retransportation, the ofactwhich w have an membered that plowing Is the most cost ' mbvlng the thlnga crop operations and that this cost Insnd which ws do not need of A needed. are This creases In d'rect proportion to the dept td points where they de plowed, whether the p6wer employed be his brought about commerce, trade unhorse or tractor But It still further Were this velopment, expansion. be remembered that deep plowing known. the oceans of this planet would should le relatively cheaper. In proportion to the bl unexplored, the railroad would he and time, with the tractor than and our continents would still be speed The average maximum :j Inhabited by little groups and tribes of with the horse to the best authorities depth, according . primitive people. seven is inches the idea' approximately 7 .oi us see how motive power helps the The penetration. point more. to farmer produce to understand is this- With th present A. Jew years ago the farmer could readand hieh price of farm labor, ily Obtain all the good help he required for scarcity combined with the need for deep and exat from $15 to $20 per harvesting his cropssme tensive plowing the tractor, In comptr-Iso- n services he is tomonth. For the with the horse, costs less acxim-pllshe- s day paying from $50 to $60 and often as both more, and, consequently hitch as $70 per month. labor at such quantitatively and oualltative'y yields a It looks as though farm maximum of production. cost of the production high cost brings Ideal for th proSuch la toj so high a figure that by the time the duction ofthebumper procedure winter wheat crons fctxl product reachee the market, with Rut such a procedure Is barely possible coat tide production coat, transportation with the horse as the power unit. To and various handling costs attached, the Illustrate horses have Just finished The must necessarily price to th consumer harvesting the wheat, and almost Immehq high. There is no magic used In creatfor It Is diately the corn, kaffir, cotton and otlv-- r ing high cost for food products, Hav time Is next I Crops need cultivation. seed measured from th time the the program, and all the while the the food product is placed on planted until under terhas hard horse been at upon the table of the consumer and Is rific heat conditions, to work which he Is In rtgculated by the channels through which no wise acclimate I of neces.passes on the way from th loll to the sity I put off, sowingPlowing is delavel, and ciWisumers table. I when It is done the seed put Into s t; ivobably on good way of tilling vast soil already half depleted of the preclot The factor of weeds moisture content allowed to grow because of lack of Hire The result 1" to eradicate also enters a of a crop and only half or aomrtlmea not evrn that Statistics of the bureau of firm manMl! t.MlHH ftftltill 1. a. agement of the Vnlted 8tatea department of agriculture estimate that t'e number of horaes disposed of on 146 farms Vn ssasswfusa- syj."i.sey averaging 346V4 acres, on whl(f-- trictora had been used for a vear or over, was two and per farm, while nine operators out of 11 displaced horses entireIs the Important factor where there are ing price of American products would be cause of low cost of operation and can At Louisville, Ky., $0 to 100 motor It iarre sm so high that they would hav no place In feed ,hts tonnage to the main line In car-loly on plowing, disking and harrowing trucks loaded with grain are being recages. was further shown that the average numcermust be done at a As the the markets of th world. ceived by Ballard A Ballard company of lots. This Is well Illustrated at Louber of tillable acres per horse Increased tain thne plowing But the farmer has at last awakened isville and lnd snapoli to obtain maximum results, th where rrea er Louisville dally. frtim twestv-sl- x and after the tiactor Is capable not only of plowing deep to his opportunity and is, like the manu-fa- c carload tonnage Is being created by the It further shows at a high rate of speed as compared witn purchase of the tractor urer, adopting better method of pro- 1st in the meuiurn ot tn yncreo. All Records Broken. tractor on these farms the horse that a throe-plohut with the use of a minimum duction. Farm life la no longer a drudgery, truck: through It is sta ed that th motor truck has does the work of eight snd nor Is he Uo'ated Ilk the farmer of the amount of labor. Over (800 hogs went to the Indianapolis broken for the haulage of horses In plowing disking, harrowing and It req lire a total of 51 0$ days, or past. He a bus' ness man, lokyartls In one day by motor truck. wueat atallthisrecords and gentleman, that It has floodAfter the trac- 1416 5 r harvesting. hours for plowing, and hi business I that, of producing the This wag more than the number received ed ths market point Inan extent that the to such slxe waa of the farm most necessary ancL- - essential products bv rail. tor, the average Hive hundred truck, trsve'lng dirking, cultivating planting, barreling, elevators became clogged. Motor truck creased by twenty-twacres, oi 6 per and harvesting fifty acres of corn land known to man. 7 he products of his 2500 miles, hauled ths hogs, which ware are - bringing wheat as far as sixty to cent. -- - 4 basic tor life-- - The farmer of valued at $200,000 with the nae of horses, whereas the samp miles to St. Louis and Louisville, seventy fifty acres can be covered by a tractor the west is th most Independent of men by the farmers of western coming In Hog haulag (tops Pain Instantly Remove Corns steadily from 7 o'clock In the Government Survey Made. In twenty and he lives on land valued a- from $200 to lows Into the stockyards at Bloux City, i days. In $475 Completely. until 7 at night. The motor an acre. It commoid find him 'as shown by ths Stockyard company, morning A survey made bv The department of the first Instance four horse on a Everybody, everywhere, needs to know ar being used for this class trucks that In a house valued at $20,000, while (are reaching enormous proportions. It Is gang plow cover four acre a livingTike or folks have already agriculture showe that out of a total of n wkut million and capacity. he. his city fellowman, enjoys all stated that hogs received at this point ere of flvs-to- n or twelve and day farmers who reported a change day, tho guaranteed It Is evident that theee food prodlearned about Gets-I- l, very e a corn field, whereas th the luxuries of life in the way of mod- during January February and March. uct In acreage, fortv-sior 81 '4 per cent, for and Into stockards elevators coming n gasoline-driveern same In electric 1817, totaled work done hv a tractor, hauling for a similar period plumbing, L c. L lots finally beoom carload lots reported an Increase averaging approxitwo fourteen-inc- h light plants, private waterworks and an 1818 this had Increased to 1$ 750, whll In plows, In nine dsv movement has The for th railroads. mately 116 acres each. In the corn belt Disking and harrowing 11 . aulomo-dlews hla fled and hare for a similar period In 191$ the amount la done In on It has been found thit one man with a created new wealth, whhh flows Into licit becomes two opt ration vest tils crops with hiotlve power, and hsd Jumped to 26,19.'. Th traffic man- the sev-srclrcula-lotractor and a plow done the operation, banks and from Into he saves a day by making his own delivwhen accomplished with horses. ager of the Hloux City stockyard. In a work of two men anil two sources. eries In his motor truck. report Jut sent In, stales that th figure , teams with two sulky plows. Horses Eliminated. 1 he motor truck as a revenue producer for 1970 will probably the be more than , The farmer, ilk th manufaotut-erInA slgnltlcsnt thing shown from th or man. bueinesa railroad other man h the tractor as the farmer's 96,000. stands wi any It is eS Ido nt that with labor coa: run- biggest possibility for greater production quiry made by the department of agrihis bank aid that financial tha requires culture la the lack of colts on the farm ning from l5o'to $5 a day. with th can give him to harvest and market his hauling hog or other livestock, Motor Truck Facilitates. ' the low price of high cost! df feed for farm horses cut or hen The reason for this th farmer ta Between harvest farm the to corn, and from the wheat crop. feed and the fart that the tractor la so in the ratio given, and with cultivation market It is The vlca president of th Ht. Joseph, usually short on cash, and therefor the Is which wealth creat'ng folIn their th place agricultural intensified through the use of th tractor, flowing Into the sms I rural largely taking bank must a'so corns to his aid In the and out Mo, gtmkvnrd comiovny reports work irodtcliun must. In time exceed are making de- lowing receipt bv motor truck: Into t IcculalloiL purchase of hie farm power machinery, The saving of time and coat of liveries of hokf Inhairnet Bheep which will turn his crops Into money, Cattle Itar Hogs Corn. Ilk wheat, ahould be planted early the reel of the morn- 1818 87.187 ! 20 6'6 121 118 In order to produce the neci CreJIt should be extended lo him Just oa crop, production are the rime factor In haring with no shrinkage, taking advan-4e- - htteerrrrTTrT-- n 8 M 52 tt 14J for to because early planted com ripens ttrst and vesting the vast acreage uf America, f a end market readily as to any buainess man ex4b dritrwrtng II InIs coming through aril "the elmnne'a that livestock thle sta'ea larger trough earth r an and ths us of farm power and tho better better produces usually public pork products. In come of will to flow on hack a the radius motor while truck from fifty tended production h become th biggest producer, VteUI, and also because of Its slow, tough will benefit through th miles and over Also that th livestock business asset of our benklng evstem. Harvest Reaped. growth is not so susceptible to droughts the nation ever It In better condition than It ha production which will bs avail-atias corn planted later In addition, such Agriculture, with nearly $70,0u0,000,o0 ac-of The bank of Louisville, Kv kro reap- been before The growth of haulag of Investment, outdistances every other corn derives mors benefit from the con- tion. for domestic and foreign consumpAt tills livestock ly motor tru k Is growing so tivity of man, and when ws stand back ing a harvest with the farmer. served winter anil spring moisture supply, re Th te of Is of In art motor soil trmk this tell rapidly that company pulling grain by making tji of th KA4 Year Cow With "Cels-li- . farmer when hs Is In need of produce point has a better rootage before the advent of mote, the reduction of costly ialcor and have overtaxed the apat hies of the elefucillllea to handle 8600 head of hogs banking fsrmtWs we are strengthening corn and callus remover. Any summer drought and consequently stands otter re1600 hogs have the A whuh of heretofore creahave as handled are per distribution vators, painless many day. foundations of the republic. of a very when these larger chama maturing reerw no matter how deep routed, dbeen received St this yard in one day. tors of weal h. When a manufacturer ceipt with case. eists quickly when Gete-lt- " A arrives. conditions materialise. finds that his ppod-Ua feeder to the ral.rosde the motor Omnha the receipts of hog for 191$! Good Roads Essential. cost Is rising ,it The chief essential of crop prediction h.- Itiinn dlatcly looks around for more and more a ne- were 187.(04, against 65 92$ for th preg tru k is Wonderfully simple, yet simply wonderBut there Is another element which In addition to this, 25.798 vious Store of railroad .executive ful, because til soreness stops wlth'ths ire heat, soil fertility, tested seed sufll-rleaid Ing methods or decessity. of water and adequate cultivation vices Ihese devices are generally of a hnv admitted that th short haul, 1. o I. cattle year. your corn' first appili erton. Get rid am) 44 447 heed of sharp cams to enters Into ths problem of agricultural I wear dla ribullon, and that la methods. Is actor shoes the fulfillment fit. The shoes ti that tt from or aim. tnn this is to mechanical farm bacuu operala of and illg nature, market by truck SI. railway production snd unprofitable shipment Without good road we good road " nske corns grow bigger. Your money Of these conditions. It prepares the Ideal sue h method that mam facturer are able tion. ard tht the load de'lvered from as far away as flf'y miles and up. pi tn-to have efficient motor root on Is never i "Ot In If Insist ted corn a fall demanded that she to cut down cos" and Increase produc- th branch lo the main line carrte hop The motor truck Is th by bulk reaslng produc- ran I benor con we expect to corn Of 71a tha trifle truck a as line cannot a but horse tion Increased on to snlinal mnmifH drain foods. uror do, which the the main tion everywhere. fulled producbelt, operation, deficit, g'puln E. Lawrence A o cost-reand bumper cause the trartor ran do so mote ecoMid. by l , Chicago. uelng devlee irotil. Th motor truck can profitably - tion means greeter profit for th farmer hav Intensivew cultivation hav th roads to carry L L haul unless and o. consumer. and In would he be sell distance lower costs Time lo tb short (Advertieepient.S thoroughly crops nomically, quickly living bankruptcy, and th freight Transportation The Brstermomtaiiii Associated of Credit era IKlas Taken Charge of the Affairs of the Jay Bee7 ClarEi Stores and this Pathless Sacrifice Uas Been Ordered to Satof Creditors. isfy HtTBHG' BE i t -- s horse-draw- 1 $40,000 STOCK OF CORO AND FABRIC TIRES, AUTO ACCESSORIES and PARTS TO BE lmn tt SAIE IE6IDS' TUESDAY RULES OF SALE , h ! No Exchanges No Approvals M odor-supp- SACRIFICED REGARDLESS No C. O. D.s No Returns No Checks Will Be ly tractor-drawb- Store Closed Monday for Inventory and Marking Goods Accepted All Purchases Must Be Paid for in Cash ar - OF COST leg 25 Per Cent Deposit Will Hold Any Purchase of .$10 or More for Two Weeks Oarage Men! Stock Up!! 10 Per Cent Extra Discount onvAll Never Again Such Savings as These Purchases of$100 or More SlPPLY YOUR NEEDS NOW I SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS - trevrtra Store Open From 9 a. m. to 9 p, m. Daily 66 1 EAST 4TM SOUTH. 52-5- 6 iillions three-fourth- Use one-ha- Gets-I- t one-ha- an IE V lf SALT LAKE CITY. lf w one-ha- For Corns lf hone-rowe- o S three-quart- 1 alx-to- flfty-tlv- one-ha- o lf fifty-acr- 1 : al two-hor- 1 rn-- 1 s on - time-savin- coat-redu- c Ct lt I lalcor-savtn- K? -- d l- the loads It I useless to up production when the link thatspeed lies between the farm and the railroad terminal is in auen a state that operation over it is Impossible., If the railroads of our country had d to develop thajr right of way to the demands of traffic we would be In a worst) posl Ion than that in which we find ourselves at preterit. As the demands of commerce upon tho faillltles of our railroads Increased, steel rails took of wooden rads, with their strops of stefl, rock ballast displaced cinder foundation, while In the graJual course of evolution steel cars, both freight and passenger, cams to displace the crude affair of dnvs gone by. Think what It .would have meant had the ral'road neglected their roadbeds and had only confined I heir attention to the development of the load' and th rolling stork It could not be expected to carry the gigantic loads which it Is dully called upon to bear. But this exactly the position In which the motor truck find Itself today a highly developed transportation nmihlne without th proper roadbed to carry It. Motor Land. mg-lecte- e 1 Luis Cabrera Inaugurates NewMexicanRevolution EL PASO, Texas, Mijreh ID Pres ti he from 1 ns Noth las, a newspaper printed In Mexico City, received In lH 1 abo today, tdi of tho formation of ft nltiUon In Mexico, headed ty Lull Oft brera, tho mitn with the brain behind 1 ar tanta government." and hla brother. Alfonao Oaf rra, and Ignat In nonllUi. for mer reprcaentatlv . uf Mexico to the dls-pa- L'nHed HUtc. The diet fetch ftftid the brother had put up S.Oou peeoa to finance the which wa atarted In th mown tain of OufhUt, prinHimllv among 4he Indiana General tlihriel tOao ttf nw rt Honed n the dlapati hu b ping in pro vide the mom v for the pint It U reported rei-ei that tha hopa to rnaka !,u! Cti brarft preaidant. mine-men- t, i f, j |