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Show WHY TOE FMMER OSES AUTOMOBILES "When we kept a horse and outfit," says a farmer who owns a motor car, i "the first cost of which exceeded the ' cost of our car, the expense of maintenance main-tenance of the horse outfit was more than $2 a day right here on the farm. "The horse had to be fed three times a day. It had to be groomed and exercised every day whether we wanted to use it or not. Trips to the blacksmith were frequent. Expense was never ending. Added to this was our sympathy for the poor horse In very hot and very cold weather. Thought of our own comfort finally led us to purchase a machine. "Immediately our eyes were opened to the greater economy of the motor driven vehicle. It did "not have to be exercised. It cost nothing when not In use. The upkeep was far less for a' vastly greater amount of work than that of the horse. The car was always ready to go anywhere at any time and get us back home again, regardless of distance, at fine speed. Where formerly for-merly a twenty-mile drive was a hard-ship hard-ship for the horse and ourselves, our car makes easy work of 100 miles, or even 200 miles, in a day. And we ride in perfect comfort. "When we see our neighboring milk-man, milk-man, butcher, fishman and farmer friends speeding about on their trading trad-ing errand in motor cars, doing their work quickly and covering much greater great-er territory in less time and with less effort and expense than ever was possible pos-sible with horses, we congratulate our-spIvcs our-spIvcs on buying our trusty automobile. automo-bile. We wish we had realized Its value long before we gave up our horse. We cannot look on the modern, practical, useful, reasonably priced automobile au-tomobile as a luxury. It has become the farmer's necessity for work and pleasure. Every farmer should own one." v |