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Show GASOLINE Ell, COMFORT, LEISURE Automobiles, motor trucks, tractors, and the gasoline-driven engine in its multiplicity of uses, bring to the farmer of today comfort and leisure and really make farming worth while. The farmer of yesterday and the farmer of today aro two different individuals in-dividuals in more ways than one. C. S. Rieman, vice president and general 'manager of the Elgin Motor Car corporation, cor-poration, believes that the automotive industries of America have been the making of the fanner. "Wo find our best market Is in the farming districts," salr Mr. Rieman recently, "and Elgin cars aro being marketed in ever-increasing nunlbers to tho men who farm tho lands throughout America. But it is not only tho passenger car that is a quick seller with the tillers of tho soil, for there aro tho motor trucks which are now essential to the farmer, the tractor which is coming into more general use every day, the lighting and heating systems being installed so generally, and ultimately I suppose it will bo the airplane also, for farmers will take to anything automotive as a matter of course, and the airplane provided them with quicker means than the motor car to reach tho city. Gasoline has certainly been a boon to the farmer. Our salesmen have written writ-ten the company commenting upon the change in the times. Today and yesterday with our fanners represent startling changes. Now tho mail comes to the door and tho R. F. D. uses a motor car. The farmer will soon place his produce on his loading platforms, and trucks will stop and take tho products away to tho market. The farmer and his family no longer dread tho country, for they aro able to enter their cars and reach the city 25, 50 or even 100 miles away in a comparatively com-paratively short time, and to make distances never thought bestr with the uso of horses, and far too costly in time. The farmer could not today get along without his car. And ho has time to keep up with the times, for by tho use of motor transportation, and through the use of the motor-driven tractors he is making time constantly. Everything today is"working out to the benefit of the man who tills tho soil, and life as the result of automotive devices of every character, of which the passenger car was the leader, becomes be-comes one long sweet song to a man and his family, who, in the past, found llfo most Irksome always, and who found his family slipping away to the big city. Nowadays the family lives at home, and the motor car places the city closer at hand all the time as the roads improve, while trucks, tractors and other devices gain the lime for tho farmer to spend many of his leisure hours in the city Improving mind and body. He's no longer a rube." nn |