The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-24
$4,000 AUTOS ARE
OWNED BY FARMERS
Prosperous AgriculturiStS Are
Partial to the Gasoline
Driven Vehicles.
FITS NICELY INTO WORK
MOTORS MAKE FARM DISTRICTS
ALMOST INTERUR6AN.


Careful estimate Of the number Of
automobiles owned by farmers In the
entire United States is 10000.
Why does the farmer want an autoE
It's interesting, says Leslie's Weekly.
The farmer has more good reasons Tor
having an auto than any other man. IL
Is commonly said now that many city
men are buying autos who cannot az
ford them. Garage and chauffeur costs
are largely responsible for this con-
dition.
But the farmer takes to an ANTONIO
bile quite like the proverbial duck to
water. In the first place, he knows
machinery. He handles it all day long
and has TO be his own repair man. AS
: result he is his own chauffeur ana
so Is mis- son.
The auto fits into the farm work
as IL made for it, 1t doesn't replace
the horse-nOt bit of IL. The horse
goes into the field in the morning ana
the auto runs the milk to town, or
makes a quick dash to the machine
shop in town for part to repair the
binder or the threshing machine. IL
saves the time in many instances Nas
many farmers testify of big gang
of men in the field In an emergency. II
pays for itself in real service by the
end of a year or two.
And then comes the extra measure OF
value 1t gives, in the pleasure sense
Writer after writer has told OF the
Ofttimes leading TO insanity. 1t Is well
known that a great percentage OF IN
sanity IS among farm women Ahe
horses are needed in the fields every
day of good weather, and on SUNDAY
they need rest, The farm wire anu
family, therefore, are practically pfis-
Oners for a large part of the year. They
are at the mercy OF distance. Such
condition cramps them, stunts them
and drives the children to the cities In
of . %,
1t has been the sad cry of the farm
and the village for fifteen years that
its best young men were gong TO the
cities-that they refused TO stay on the
farm because Of lack or pleasure as
well as lack of opportunity.
Nowadays there is no more cry ABOUT
lack Of opportunity on the farm. six
teen automobile makers are advertising
autos TO the farmers in the 40 farm
papers OF the country, and most OF
them are arguing that the automobile
will keep the boy on the farm ana
make life more livable for the wife
whose dreary round of labor has Deen
the pity of the country.
Now the farmer with an auto can
take his family for an evening CALL
OF lecture, without using ms horses'
He can go to church on sunday more
regularly; he can visit distant relatives
and friends more frequently; ne can
go 20 town oftener and more quickly
one Dakota farmer who is extremely
fond of hunting, but lives forty miles
from the game district, takes MS son
with him on Saturday during the sea
son and comes back Saturday night
with a deer or two slung across the
radiator, and bubbling over with tales
There are $4,000, 900 people living on
farms and in towns of less than 4,OOO
in this country. This means that over
half of our population is practically In
the country. About 25,00O,OO0 OF these
are Young people, and they are just as
keen for pleasure as young people any
where else. That is one big reason Tor
the automobile on the farm. Ten or
fifteen years ago farmers bought or
gans for their daughters and buggies
for their sons. A great many OF them
are today buying autos for the whole
family. An entirely new meaning mas
been given to the village social life in
consequence.
In fact the farmers themselves are
the best champions of the auto.