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Show AUTOMOBILE MIGHTY HANDY FOR FARMERS Faster Than Any Other Means of Transportation. A writer, In discussing the relation of the automobile on the farm, says that after a hard day's work It Is a pleasure to get into a car and take a 25-mile spin. We rest as we do, and study the methods of our neighbors. Moreover, the automobile has another an-other service to perform. It can bring more rapidly than your best horse "first aid to the Injured." If there Is an accident to a child or man, and a doctor or a surgeon Is needed in a hurry, the automobile can bring him faster than any other means of transportation. trans-portation. If there Is trouble In the field, If some part of your farm machinery Is broken down, the automobile can bring from town the needed help or the parts that you need to set the machine ma-chine in motion again. Again, the automobile brings the farmer closer to the market, whether it Is the local or the distant market, and enables him to market his produce more rapidly and on better terms. The writer to whom we have referred says that he has a machine that has run for 16 months on the original set of tires, with only $3.25 expense for patching tubes. He says the purpose of his machine Is pleasure, business and marketing; that he has hauled apples, ap-ples, potatoes, oats, eggs, butter, pigs, calves and hitched It to the hay rope to unload hay Into the mow. |