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Show SUGAR BUSINESS , HU MOTOR TRUCKS "One of the latest industries to adapt the motor truck lo its transpor- tation demands is that of the sup lr I cane and sugar beet growers," savs G. C. Frey. of the Kissel Motor Car ! Co. "Sixty million tons of sugar cane or more are handled every season eb tween the United States and Cuba. Up to now the expensive two whet-led ox carts handled the bulk of this cane. The same is true in the sugar beet industry in-dustry where a hundred thousand American farmers grow ten million tons of lUgaT beet! which have to be hauled at an averago of four or five miles from the farms to the factories or beet dumps. Here again the old and expensive horse-driven tranpor tation method has been responsible for delayed deliveries and expensive labor. la-bor. "Up to a short time ago the motor truck had not been tried out by the sugar industry, but gradually after demonstrations had been held in which it was proven that the motor truck was eapable of carrying more tons longer distances in a shorter per-iod per-iod of time and at less cost, the growers grow-ers realized that it was to their bene fit both from an efficiency as well 00 an economy and net Income standpoint to supplant the old-fashioned methods with the modern motor truck. "Especially is this true when it has been found that by equipping motor trucks with pneumatic tires a capacity load can bo hauled from the field over soft ground just as effec tively as if an invisible macadamized road led up to and into the beet fields. This ability on the part of the motor truck to transport suear beets or Bttgax cane from the ground to the factories or beet dumps has not only decreased the time in harvesting but has made an enormous saving in the cost of la bor, permitting owners to accomplish the same amount of work in less time and with less help "This increased efficiency In th? production and transportation of pup.tr in its raw state means that eventually sucnr will undoubtedly be sold at a reduced re-duced price to the consumer and is only a repetition of the results the ' motor truck accomplishes in practically practic-ally every field, both industrial an 1 agricultural " oo |