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Show :o: THE FARMER AND HIS AUTOMO-BILE. AUTOMO-BILE. No less than $2,000 automobiles arc owned by tho farmers of this country, coun-try, according to an official of 0110 of the largest motor car companies In the United Stntes. A majority of these (midlines belong to the grain-growing fS7lners of the great western ngrlcul tut nl states, but wo are told that the tillers of the soil In the east are also al-so piiichaBing more automobiles this eur than last. As a matter of fact, motor vehicles of various ypes are rapidly becoming almost a necessity In the transporta tion of farm products. For Instance, every canning factory has many patrons pa-trons who deliver tholr produce In automobiles. au-tomobiles. A man hugely Interested In the business of preserving vegetables and fruits is quoted as saying that the trouble the dinner has always faced in maintaining a sufficient output out-put has been his ability to grow enough raw mnteiluls near euough to the factory to bilug It from the field, piepare It and get It Into the cookera while fresh and ctlsp. With farmeia dependent on home-drawn wagons for hauling their produce to the canneries canner-ies stuff would wilt and be useless for canning purposes If grown more than three or four miles from tho plant. It has meant lestrlcted acreage 011 the Ione side or supplemental') plants In stuttered centers ns the alternative.' This difficulty Is being very effectively effec-tively met by the advent of tho motoi vehicle of great capacity. Farm produce pro-duce can be quickly tuinspoited to the canneries In an uutoiiHU.no, and now It Is being received In perfect eondl tlon (loin distances which were undreamed un-dreamed of a few yeaia ago. The growing radius has been Increased many miles, which is not only an ad vantage to the ownois of u pieserv tug plant, but to tho funnels of the iilstilct, us It gicatly enhances the val no of furm lands. IV.-hups this will have the effect of reducing the cost 1 iM 'of canned goods ; certainly this should bo-'the ense Irihatuo' of ifhlhgl. Truly the" nutomobllb Is fast becoming" a most useful prvant Knickerbocker Pres. f t ' !ll! |