Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-26

And automobiles, they are everywhere.
one agent tried to contract for 400 to be
delivered during the next ten months out
in central Kansas last week. At a fair
eighty miles west of Wichita In what was
there was a fair last month and the auto
mobile parade had 100 cars in line. There
are more than that in the county.
Drive Of - Kansas road and you meet
more cars than teams. The big feature
Of IN old settler reunion the other day
was an automobile ride. The fifty cars
lined up and the old people were urged
to get in.
Don't you want to goH" asked one
driver of a white whiskered farmer who
was standing back.
Guess not" was the reply. II drove my
own car in twenty miles this morning and
that will do for today"
In the line were more cars belonging to
farmers than to townspeople. The novelty
has actually worn off. The farmer takes
his family, ties a dozen fishing poles to the
side of his car and goes off for a days
rets. A farmer won the endurance race
cup given by a city club last fall and is
likely to do 1t again.
Able to Buy the Finest.
why shouldn't they buy cars?' a dealer
put In. II went out to demonstrate a car
the other day and around the yard where
the farmer and his wife stood looking at
tho machine were corn cribs with 1900
bushels Of corn, worth 5000. That was
only a part OF last years crop. He had
not yet gathered his crop of this year.
Il had taken out a cheap two-cylinder
car. The farmer looked at 1t and asked.
Haven't you something betterT Then I
went back II took out a ~forty-horse
power touring car. with top and glass front.
He took it. Gave me a check for the
money, too"
When the farmer goes in for spending
he is a free buyer and he wants things as
good as the own folk nave and the prairie
farms are being fitted up with the uxuries
to correspond with the incomes OF the
owners.
Along with the motor car have come
other inventions that are costing the farmer
money. To be sure they are labor savers,
but they have attracted him because they
bring new methods to the farm. A few
years ago there could have been no sale
for them, because then nc one was able
to buy them
Power for the PI0w.
One OF these Is the gasoline pillow. II Is
in effect a motor field implement and car
ries from four to six plows and a harrow.
so that going over the field once puts II In
condition for seeding. The big steam ploWs
have been used on the bonanza farms for
years, but they are only practicable where
the area Is large and the turns %infrequent.
The new implement is adapted to the
smaller field and man farmers ara look
ing on II with satisfaction
They are going 70 spend q few hundred
dollars trying It out They will substitute
Il for the team and single pillow Just as
many nave already substituted the gaso-
line engine for the uncertain windmill The
gasoline engine they attach To the pump,
the feed grinder. the ereSm separator and
the milking machine and are thus enabled
to save many steps and much physical
labor.
A couple Of shrewd young men went our
into the country In the wheat belt and
made this proposition TO the farmers:
We are getting out q directory OF the
county and want to have a picture OF every
house and every farm on the rural routes.
Look pleasant. please"
The farmer and his family faced the cam
era and ne instrument clicked How was
the farmer % know that there we're no