Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-06-27
BY G. r. HUTCHJNS
Tacoma Manager Goodyear Tire 4
Rubber Company,

Rubber Company.
Truck manufacturers and agents
everywhere are awakening to the i'm
portance OF the farm field as an i'm
mediate and most promising market
for trucks. This is evidenced by the
1act that more motor trucks we're
sold to farmers during the past year
than were sold for war use.
The farmer must be shown He is
not quick buyer, but when once
the utility of an article is proved he
buys without further nesitancy.
Proof OF this is found in the fact that
SO per cent of all the passenger cars
sold in this country in the year pre-
vious to the war went into rural COM
munities.
There was a day when the wheel
barrow was looked upon as an i'm
portant method of transportation:
then came the OK cart; then the horse
propelled vehicle; and now. today,
the truck. The present day agricul-
turist needs the truck in the success
full operation of his farm more than
mains that no farm is properly mo-
forized with either the truck or trac-
tor alone.
If the farmer must keep his horses
standing in the barn, waiting for the
time when they must transport the
crops to market, he cannot afford to
buy the tractor. 1t has been proved
beyond a question of doubt that all
the work of the farm can be done by
the tractor and the motor truck.
Today about 27,000,000 horses
and mules are being used by farmers
and each one of these horses and
mules consumes annually one-fourth
ducing, or an average for each horse
of all that is produced on a five-acre
tract of land. The ordinary 100
acres of diversified farming requires
about eight horses where the tractor
or the truck has not been adopted.
The value to the nation at large of
replacing 60 to rs per cent of the
horses and mules can at once be seen:
This would release for food from 25
to 40 acres of every 160-acre farm
for the benefit of the people and nat
urally 1t would tend to reduce the
cost, of living.
1t is cheaper. as matter Of abso-
lutte fact, to feed gasoline or even
alcohol to the internal combustion
engine than to feed corn, oats and
hay to horses and mules.
There are three methods of trans
portatiOn recognized today: high
ways, railways and waterways. The
motor truck, properly equipped, is
capable Of going into the field of the
producer and carrying merchandise
direct. without interruption. to the
consumer in the city, while In the
case Of waterways and railways the.
must be served both between them
and the producer as we'll as the con-
sumer at both ends by either teams
or motor trucks. In other words, the
motor truck is a complete method OIL
transportation. while the railway and
the ship only partially complete the
job.
do not mean to say that a truck
of the most approved type, If equipped
with solid tires, is a perfect highway
Transportation unit. because Its use
fulness is limited by conditions
Pneumatic tires on the other hand
will negotiate snow, sand. mud, sof'
fields and paved roads with SO much
more economy and efficiency over ant
above the solid tires that they have
made the motor truck practical all
year-round farm tool.
Instead of operating one truck or
a farm for hauling only. most farm
ers would buy more trucks and com
pletely rid themselves of their horses
and mules II they could use theil
trucks in every manner OF wori