Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-16
F ARMERS USING
MOTORS MORE
AND MORE
HRICTI.TI-RAI

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the effect the automobile has had
on the back 70 The soil movement To
those in the automobile business it APP
pears that it has had more to do with
bringing the farmer TO the city-and
taking him back again.
For every man who has been carried
'.back to the soil" by the automobile
thousand farmers have rendered their
existence more pleasant, more efficient
and more profitable by the use of the
automobile.
In the last few years the Southern
farmer has taken to the automobile
like a duck to June bugs. The price
has been brought down to him and he
has bought Since then he has used
the car to get about over the country,
to carry his family about and to make
life better worth living. The secretary
of a state board Of agriculture said re-
Gently
obviously, there are few, if any, who
have more or better reasons for en-
ploying the auto than the farmer In
stead of the slow, tiresome journey to
town in the 1olting, nerve wrecking
lumber wagon, with a faded or over
worked team, or even the spring wagon
or carriage and fresh roadsters, the
automobile makes the trip With both
speed and comfort, leaving the team
available for use at home, extremely
important, especially in those Seasons
of the year when horsepower isg most
needed"
Auto Works Wonders.
That this is true anybody who has
lived in the country will readily admit.
When farm affairs are pressing, the
necessary trips may be taken with the
auto after the days work is done, and
as recreation. In innumerable ways
the car may add to the pleasure of farm
life. 1t will carry the milk to the
creamery, take the women shopping,
haul minor produce to market bring
home supplies, and on Sundays, while
teams are resting. whisk the family to
church to neighbors, or to friends more
remote
During harvest, when there is a
breakdown in the machinery (and
what farmer does not have breakdowns
in the course OF season?), the auto
tlODllG QulthlN blllEN liit AANN'N0'hA9
extras or repairs. and work goes on,
with little loss from delays Otherwise
accidents in harvest time might in some
instances entail hundreds Of dollars of
loss, for the utilization of every mo-
rnent of favorable weather counts when
bringing in the sheaves"
Demand For Horse Still Good.
horse; far from it. However incred-
tble 1t may SEEM its increased use has
in no way detracted from the prosper
fty of the horse industry. The demand
for good horses is stronger than it has
ever been before prices rule higher
now than for years, and their breeding
and rearing is fun of bright promise.
BY making available a large working
force on the farm the auto has a great
er significance than might at first blush
appear for it makes possible better Gull
tivation, the development of larger
areas, and hence increased productions,
the importance of which is indicated by
the relation Of our diminishing food
supply to our increasing population
The needs of the people are increasing
faster than they are being met, as is
shown by the lessening ratio of diff
ference between consumption and pro-
duction, and il the auto contributes,
even indirectly, to a solution of the
problem this condition presents, II is
a more important factor in affairs than
was at first realized
Also, so far as it saves time team
and man to the farm, just to that ex-
Gent is it helping to solve another seri-
GUS rural problem, that of labor.
Farmers Forced Good Roads.
What the farmer has done for road
improvement everybody in Georgia
knows. When the automobile was a
plaything for the very rich there was
little done out Of the ordinary in the
matter of road Improvement. When
farmers began 10 buy cars, pressure
was brought 10 bear that resulted in
road improvement
Today Georgia has some roads as
good as any in the world Despite the
handicap Of lack OF good road material
in many parts Of the state, the farmers
are having roads built that in dry
weather are as good as the worlds best
~hiAu Alta- ~ We weather are t0nSlOtId-
! bly, better than worst Around the
cities-Atanta, Macon. Savannah and
the lile-there are city mems roads.
But get down in central and southern
Georgia and YOU find roads that were
financed by farmers, laid out by farm
ers kept UP by farmers and that are
credit to the farmers and the state.
Brightens Farm Life.
In contributing SO materially to the
convenience and coutentment Of the
farmers family, the motor car is over
coming one ~ the chief drawbacks
urged against the farm-it makes farm
life less burden~omc, Alore agreeable
anu keeps those iu the country i'm
closer touch with the rest of mankind.
Ii encourages visits that make for
more neighborliness, and contributes TO
culture and refinement that without the
mental contact and association with
others might not be attained II helps