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Show mm j II Farm States Foimd j 1 Best Road Boosters' j' Observers are said to regard it as 1 I significant that tho states which will I 1 spend most freely for better highways! i t inrl ,..t.tiV. ,r1T,,,r-,... .1 1 .. I to buy tlie most motor trucks in 1920 j are stales in which farming is the predominant pre-dominant occupation. ! 'It is estimated that Kansas, which j will spend $8,000,0000 on road ini- provements, will buy 20,000 motor j trucks this year. j Minnesota has a road-building pro- j gram calling for the expenditure of j 11,127,985. As an illustration of what I the farmer in that state thinks of the j motor truck a statement recently la- i sued by the Northwestern National s bank of Minneapolis might be cited in which it is said that "trucks in largo X numbers, intended for immediate use in marketing grain, are being sold to If, fanners." Eelevator scales In man places are being remodeled to accom- it modate the growing fleet of fanners' ij '. trucks. j , t Iowa, potential buyer of many mo- J tor trucks, will spend 20,-198,534 on better highways. |