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Show FARMERS HAUL WHEAT BY 'i TRUCK. SAVE TWO PROFITS OMAHA. Neb. Oct Jl enable to i obtain Htm from the railroad to ship 1 his wheat to market direct and with'1 ' the local elevators HI ICO to capacity 1 and refusing to make additional pur - 1 chases. D. C Hlbbard. Potter. N b . 1 .farmer loaded 11 bushels of whM' Da bis two ton trucks and hauled ltU j U Omaha. 4ls miles. The trip required three days, with-I 'out night traveling, and the total ex-Ipeiise ex-Ipeiise was J2 0f or about Jl "nts a! bushel The wheat sold on the Omaha market for f 2 a bushel, which he aald ' insured htm a good profit oer ih-prlce ih-prlce he would have received by sell- I ing at an elevator in his home town and allowing for th elector profit I and freight rates The fretjrht rate Its 17 cents a bushel j Mr. Hlbbard announced that a truck ! I train of over IS machines, many of I ,hl- h would h"ul trailers, is content-.plated content-.plated by farmers In order to get their Icrops to market n hi return. Mr. ' tlibt'ard will haul a isrgo of apples) I from eastern Nebraska for distribution j I among hta neighbors tc hr r-rtrai 'osxt of Lha slats ' |