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Show THE AUTDmODILE FOB THE FARMER California's farmers, from tho beginning begin-ning of tho auto industry in the west, have been tho most important factors in creating and maintaining the prosperity pros-perity of the motor enr business. The fact that California's annual crops are usually of the "bumper" variety, accounts ac-counts In a large measure for the tremendous tre-mendous and continuous growth of the automobile business in that state. The prosperity of the farmer there has always been reflected in the prosperity pros-perity of the automobile business. Varied as the farm and dairy prod-ducts prod-ducts of California are the uses to which the rancher of that Btate puts the automobile. They extend from the most common usage of providing pleasure for the rancher's family and hauling crops to market, towing other farm vehicles, operating farm machinery machin-ery and actually furnishing tho motive power for the self-operating milking machines. During each succeeding season some new and Ingenuous uses are made of tho motor car some calling call-ing for sheer strength of the car's materials; others simply for a slover application of the engine's power. John R, Leland, a prosperous rancher ranch-er of the Santa Cruz mountains, furnishes fur-nishes a striking example of the uses to which the rancher puts his motor car. During the past haying season Leland hauled all of his hay from the fields to a stacks, a distance of nearly near-ly one mile, with the aid of his Maxwell Max-well 25 touring car. Leland would load the cut hay on an ordinary hay wagon, then tow the latter from the field with his Maxwell. Leland has many other uses for his car and states that he would be absolutely at a loss without his machine while at work on the ranch. |