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Show Useless Farm Automobiles The automobile has made it possible pos-sible for us to go from state to state in less time than it once took to go from town to town. It has, by giving us a fast, economical and efficient . means of transporting commodities over short distances, been of tremendous benefit to business. bus-iness. But the average city dweller overlooks ov-erlooks the fact that these fine fruits of the autombile are restricted, restric-ted, largely, to comparatively urban areas. Five or ten or fifteen miles away from main highways, in farming farm-ing localities, we find roads over which no motor car can travel during several months of each year. The residents of these sections are as completely cut off from personal and industrial contacts with the outside world as were their grandfathers. grand-fathers. A few days or weeks of bad wather make their motor vehicles ve-hicles useless. The amazing progress of the twentieth century was the result of the mechanization of all phases of industry. Agriculture has not sufficiently shared in this movement. move-ment. Our farmers need good roads which are serviceable at all times of the year. Such roads can Le built at low cost with the use of asphaltic materials for waterproofing water-proofing the surface, and pay for themselves time and again in increased in-creased farm prosperity. |