Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1915-10-21
THE AUTO ON THE FARM

farmer with all automobile, he pictures
the purse-proud tiller of the land, hav'
ing disposed Of his bumper wheatcrrp
at famine prices, as rolling along the
well-kept country road in his touring
car. accompanied by his wife and
daughters in their best clothes. 1t Is
true that large numbers os farmers
NOW OWN motor-cars. They and their
families take Joy-rides occasionally,
too; there is no doubt about that; but
tbe cars were not bought primarily for
that purpose. The farmer needs the
car in his business. Just how, cor
respondent Of The Rural New Yorker
New York; tells us in a sort OF sym
postum of interviews, under the gen.
eral heading, How Farmers Use Theft
Cars" We read in this:
81 did not buy a machine because
autos are the style, but I bought 1t to
use.' a farmer remarked as he pointed
to his load piled in the rear-seat space
Of his touring-car. The machine Is
one of the well-known lcw-priced cars
and this farmer had a half-dczen
sacks of fertilizer in his car. 1 have
carried such loads, l drive carefully
have some hilly road, but find / can
make two or three trips and do 1t more
quickly and cheaply than with team,
the farmer said. In fact, there Is one
disadvantage in using the auto for a
truck: the farmer makes sreh speed
with his load that his horses can't ira
vel fast enough to satisfy him. He
keeps urging them on, and he can't
realize there is limit to the ground
they can cover
81 used my auto to unload hay, an.
other farmer said. 4 hitched the hay
.ope to the rear axle of the machine
md by driving the machine carefully
I was able to do the work as efficiently
Us with a team
81 use a trailer a Pennsylvania
'ruit-mau remarked My machine
delivers the goods. I had an old phae-
ION, which l made over into trailer
cut off the tongue to about three on
four feet in length, had blacksmith
ron the tongue, and by placing q boil
through the iron and through board
ut the back Of the machine little a.
hove the axle, I am able to attach OF
letach my trailer as wish. l have
,arted sixteen bushels Of berries in my
trailer and hauled seven Italians II
he machine. I have used my machine
COR three years, putting it to hare
work, and it has paid. 1 am a Lover
" a horse, and am satisfied 10 autt
will take the place Of horse, but
wisely handled, the automobile has be
ONE a necessity in my fruit-business
"I bought this large tOuring-car
| secondhand. I have used 1t almrs
laily for three years and 1t has more
han doubled my business, market
ardener told me I i've doZcI
,iies form the city, my work Is large
V wholesale, and make rs many ~
| rrte trins daily. loil my machine
IL. evening before, have material 10
e. or two NOR. loldS i'll the packing
house really, AMI am able u
make the three trips before noon.'
"We have twenty-five cows; W.
live back about six and one-half mile
among the hills another farmer said
I also haul the milk for one OF m,
neighbors. We are shipping to a cit.
about one hundred miles away, ant
The auto has made it possible. We us
the machine over the roads nearly ev
.ry day from seven to nine months II
the year, and, aside from tires, oil
and gasoline, our expenses have beel
small. 1t would have required the lar
.er part Of the forenoon to make tn
trip, and we can do it now nicely afte
breakfast, in about an hour.
~ have three FARMS another auto
owner said, and 1 am able to keep II
touch with what IS doing on thcs
Farms each 0ay. There were, at tine
two or three weeks during which
would not see more than one Of thcs
tarms. To make the trips, it wou.t
have required half day at least
and now I make daily visits to one O.
both farms. 1t pays me to Keep II
touch with what is doing
"I am throughly familiar with tn
machine a woman said, as she tusse;
at the tire. L have had blowout ant
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