El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-10-09
MOTOR TRUCKS BRING DOWN COST
Of LIVING FOR CITY RESIDENTS
Farmers Are Able to Bring Produce From Distances
Daily For Market and Oh eaper Land Is Available
For Truck Gardeners; he Produce Reaches the
Markets Fresh and Also at Small Cost.

~HIS is the story Of the intimate
relationship between the conges-
tion Of population in the cities Of
the United States. the high cost Of liv-
ing and the motor truck.
Not the least factor in the present
boosted prices Of almost everything thae
enters into the daily expense account
and especially the cost OF food IS the
rapid increase in the population of the
cities, and the fact that a great part
OF the increase comes from the country.
The country boy generally does not
remain on the farm. During the last
20 years measure OF prosperity. and
even affluence. has come to the Ameri-
can farmer. and where the old home was
mortgaged a few years ago. the title is
now clear and Mister Farmer rides TO
town IN his own automobile With his
access to fortune has come the very
natural Idea and pride to be able to
give his children opportunities and ad-
FanLages OF education that he did not
have in his own youth. and TO spare
them the hard grind during years OF
urouth, Hood and frost So the boy
goes to the home school and when
he has finished il is a trip away TO
nigh school or college.
When he returns after graduation
II ne does return-he has in many
cases abandoned the idea OF spending
his life on the farm; the city calls him
7A-eA AAEITSScAAAAN the Ire or the CITY.
but the greater opportunities that are
denied him in the village. His educa-
ton and association have equipped him
TO make his start in life with a broader
horizon than the restricted limits per-
nit In the old home. So he goes to the
city, thousands and thousands Of him.
congesting the city and depOpulating
the farms until every person engaged
in agriculture in the United States
must raise enough actual food to feed
10
Feeding the City.
Inc big farmer grows the great
staples from which fOUu is made. and
OF course enough Of the green things
70 supply his own table. The little
farmer. with his patch OF truck garden,
feeds the city with its fresh food. and
supplies the home, hotel and restau-
rant with the things that perish over
night
Table food from the garden must be
gathered and delivered daily in fresh.
cool condition, and until this time that
very reason has held the truck gar
dener close to the suburbs or the big
cities. in Southern California gar
den truck is grown on land that is
being daily subdivided for building
purposes and worth from $4,000 to
5000 per acre. with an accompanying
cost to the consumer sufficient to paw
fair interest to the owner on his in
vestment capital
Reach City Early.
RMS condition obtains largely from
the fact that the gardener must get
MS produce to market during the
night CT early morning hours in order
mat II may be in prime condition for
the consumer. To accomplish this he
has until recently found il necessary
10 locate with easy teaming distance
or MS market or close to a railroad
ms station This at best. has tended /
TO limit the number Of those engaged
IN TINS business. with resultant high /
level prices.
Land held at thousands Of dollars an /
acre must produce the same rate Of in
terest and profit as land that costs only
hundreds, and the product Of such 1
lands must be sold at a price to war 4
rant such an income With the grower I
= has not been a matter of choice in I
the past but OF necessity. TO be within 4
distance. So the cities have 4
grown and become congested. real es-
tate his increased in value in and near
the cities, and the price for all things 4
for the table has had to keen pace with
the general increase
Need More Farmers.
The back to the sOir' slogan is based I
upon a real need. The country needs !
more farmers-many more farmers. TO
feed the congested cities. Land near I
he cities has been too expensive for
agriculture unless the products brought !
Dig prlces-land away from the cities (
las been too far removed to make pro-
luce farming success-until the !
armer discovered the motor truck
II has been demonstrated that the
motor truck will take place and do the
work Of a number Of teams in the de-
livery Of merchandise in the city and !
specially in the outlying districts I
Wholesale and retail houses have I
dopted the motor truck means of de-
livery very generally, until a horse /
rawn wagon is now the exception /
he truck is cheaper to maintain a /
'iven amount Of work requires a less
umber Of men, weather conditions are I
carcely to be considered in California,
nd unlike the use OF the horse. no |
ccOunt has to be taken Of the number l
miles TO be covered in a day
Delivering Garden Produce.
Garden produce must be delivered to /