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Show R!KG CITY MOMZY TO FA "MS Along Every Important lir.proved Road in tha Country Are Sujns Offjring produce. "Mother's pin money," the c.'.d JiM!"S and quarters that the farm wild gleaned from a precarious n:urUet in the old days, has blossomed into a fund to send the boys and girls away to agricultural college or put a new mower on that south forty. No longer need the Saturday trip to town be marred by last minute efforts ef-forts to tuck in the last dozen eggs or the butter crock. The era of spring wagon pilgrimages to trade in the surplus sur-plus product of the hen-house and the milking shed, has vanished. The David llarum of today operates in his own I "front yard" and at a greater proiit. I Good roads have linked the city con-I con-I sumer to the farm. Along every im- p rtant hard surfaced highway in the j 0 mntry are signs offering everything j 1-om Ice cold buttermilk to pork on : the hoof. Where the housewLfo used I to bargain for hours with the cross-! cross-! roads storekeeper for a return of perhaps per-haps 15 cents a dozen on her eggs, she now delivers them to a passing motorist for double that amount, j A week of churning to buy the promised prom-ised "silk dress" has given way to a Concrete Roads Unite the Farm Producer Pro-ducer and the City Consumer. good day's salesmanship at the roadside road-side market. Many young boys and girls are paying pay-ing their way through college with funds raised during the summer and fall in this manner. The photograph illustrating this article shows a Cook 1 county, Bllnois, farmer disposing of a robust turk to a city housewife. |