The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-10-31
MOTOR TRUCK ON
FARM is USEFUL
or Utmost Importance to Get
Various Foodstuffs to Mar
ket in Quick Time.
Big VEHICLE IS EFFICIENT
Increased Number Of Trips Alone
Places Car IN Lead and Proves
Its eonomy--Ffeavy Truck
Has Many Advantages.


Time is the farmers capital. The
difficulty Of employing adequate help
has discouraged more than one prac-
teal farmer from raising the crops
which would pay him the greatest
profits.
Always he has realized that TO mar
ket the crops was % such prime Inn
portance that he could not afford to
~stub his toe BY growing foodstuffs
which ne would not be able to get TO
market on time.
Frank Andrews Of the department
OF agriculture. bureau OF crop estl-
mate. has made a very careful inyes-
figation Of the uses Of the motor truck
On the farm and the results he has
arrived AT are amazing. DIR. Andrews
says in part. ~thc estimated cost Of
hauling In wagons from farms 20 ship
ping points averaged in 1913 about 80
cents per ton mile for wheat. 30 cents
for corn and AZ cents for cotton; for
doing the same hauling Ia motor
trucks the averages are IS cents for
wheat or corn and IS cents for cot
ton. The motor truck win make an
average Of "a round trips per day
over an average route from farm 10
shipping point Of 11.3 miles, while
wagons viii make but IL round trips
over an asiefnge haul Of o miles. The
Increased number 81 trips alone win
place the motor truck in the lead and
prove Its economy. The fact Of the
matter Is that, taking wheat as an ex.
ample. the average wagon load was
"a bushels. while that Of the load OF
the average motor truck was 81
bushels
Found Most Efficient
Not only are the heavy duty trucks
used exclusively on farms, but In
many sections where market garden
ing Is done the trucks Of III to twe
ton capacity are found most efficient
by the truck gardeners. Where III,
farm - big. and the crops are staples
the heavy-duty truck is most effective
but for the smaller farms the IL Il
two ton truck Is found most desirable
and every investigation made In re
cent years has proven that this siz'
OF truck Is the one best suited TO US
| on the farm.
The most important points for tn
man operating a farm OF any size 4
consider are these: Primarily tn
truck saves time the farmer can &c
his breakfast at home. go to marke
and be back IN time for dinner, whicl
was an utter Imposslbility when hors
and wagon were used.
Releases Five Acres.
II takes ave acres OF land 10 rails
bedding and feed for every horse o
the farm When the motor truck SUI
plants four horses 1t releases 20 acre
Of valuable land. which may at ono
be utilized for the growing OF crop
which win pay substantial prof
When the truck Is idle II doesn't cos
a cent. when the horse isn't workln
he must eat just the same.
Against the possible 100 miles a dn
which the truck can travel under loa
good average team Of horses ca
travel 20 miles In ten hours-that
going ten miles loaded and ten mile
empty over good roads.
Think Of the uses 70 which true
can be put on the farm II will hat
produce 10 market and bring retur
load Of supplies to the farm. II wi
haul water 10 the live stock; It wi
haul wood for fuel; bring the implI
ments 20 aud from the fields; haul ms