Richfield Reaper | 1918-10-12 | Page 4 | Motors and Gasoline

MOTORS AND GASOLINE because of the ver very y serious shortage of labor for farm work and the high wages for even the most indifferent character of farm laborers obtainable tai improved implements machinery and every character 0 oc mechanical ch help that will enable the farmer to accomplish desired results with as little human labor as possible becomes becomes actually the pressing pres ing necessity the tractor motor truck and automobile probably have done as much or more to multiply man power than anything else few farms owned or rented are without one or more automobiles and many now have trucks doing heavy hauling where the roads permit of their economical use A full supply of motor vehicles in bonded warehouses and gasoline at prices that we can afford to pay Is today the farmers most important equipment scarcity and formidable forbid able prices price will seriously handicap production