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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1913)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 16, 1913. MOTOR TRUCK AND FARMER Engine Power Superseding Horse Power in the West. COUNTRY IS THE BEST MARKET Trnlciil Inntnncri from tlir IleeortU of lCnnxnn nnil NclirimUn nconomlrnl Vnlne ot the OhntiKC The tax commission of the Mate of Kan ens completed Its aMeiument figures for ISIS a few weeks ago. In them some very striking conditions are shown. There nrc 67.000 fewer horses on Kansas farms than there were four years ago, 16,000 more motor enrs and motor trucks, and 1000 moro traction engines. In the last year alone the stato has lost 18,681 horses. As short a time ago as the summer of 190S there were only 2,000 motor trucks and cars combined In all Kansas, Now the number Is very nearly ten times that, ind It Is said that since March 1. when the assessment was made. 5,000 more cars and motor engines have been bought by Kansas farmers. Kansas Is typical ot all the western states In tho way In which Its people have taken to the motor truck for agricultural purposes. The western farmer first bought a motor car partly for the pleas ure of himself and his family, partly for -onvenlence In getting Into his market and trading town, and partly to save his horses. Delng a practical man, fertile In txpedlents and with moro or less knowl edge of machinery, he quickly found It possible to make use of the motor of his new possession as a power generator In ft scores of different ways. Ho sawed wood with It, chopped feed, shelled oorn, hitched It up to a cream separator, pumped water, ran his alfalfa stacker with It. It was a very useful portable power plant, a thirty to forty hore-power engine on wheels. Though he had bought It chiefly as a pleasure car, ho made no bones about keeping It at work all the time, and lta vatuo for carrying small loads of crops and possibly for running; a milk route over a hilly country be came Immediately apparent to him. Un less his farm was 'too small to make it practicable. In a year of two he was carefully looklnjr Into motor trucks and ending by making a substantial Invest ment In one. keeping his original machine Just the same. The Vanishing Horse. All over the west the faithful horde Is belnjr Bupersoded in this way. Ths lioree is vanishing at a rate of about 8 jr cent a year1. Ho has been found an unnecessary expense except at oertaln jiolnU hero and there the fields and it is the opinion of many of the most progressive farmers that within a very few years thoro will be nothing out In the open that truck or engine cannot Jiandle moro cheaply and better. Already traction engines ore dolnff the most 'of tho plowing and doing it far better, breaking ground that is too hard for a horse to break. When It comes to speed, for long" journeys or short, about the farm or around the neighboring country, or cart ing heavy loads, there is no comparison. The horse U so outclassed that the western farmer who has no motor -vohlcle ts beginning to' bo hopelessly handicapped. The farmer hM this advantage! He pi his own AliauffeuV fch& KM own" weofain ical expert and there are few cases whore his truck or oar Is not operated to per fection an nintt twplntawn'-pf- wt) ana wnn almost no repairs at all. The manufacturers Jiavo found, Ihese new patrons an interesting study. Compara tively these country folks to the west of tho Mississippi river are tho best buy ers of motor vehicles today. A farmer must be very poor or very old fashioned not to liava a truck or car 'of some sort It Is -with him halt a question ot pride, ! halt of good business, and the new dis pensation has made farming much more profitable and much more pleasant Interests the Parmer Boy. The motor truck and even the ordinary car has made a great difference with tho farmer boy. Tho farm Is Infinitely more interesting than in the old horse days. Thcro Is nothing that has done bo much to arrest tho movement ot the young men on the farms toward the city as the In stallation of power trucks, forming by tho uld ot machinery like this seems to lose all Its monotony and toll. It be comes a fascinating pursuit quite as scientific as a great factory In a city, and tho boy on the farm sees new pos sibilities ot efficiency opening, produc tion at a small percentage of the old-time cost, and Improved methods of market ing, lie has a vision of a farm many times larger than his father's and sees himself a great factor and a man ot for tune in tho new mechanical agricultural era, A great proportion of the motor vehi cles now sold through the west are for -the farms, Tho cities and larger towns have for several years past had very nearly their full complement ot pleasure automobiles, and while there Is a steady market for cars the real business la In trucks. As nearly as the manufacturers can figure half the cars west ot the Mis sissippi are trucks for practical agricul tural use or automobiles that are really larm cars. These range from tho Inex pensive passenger car for five that the owner and his family can use for work or enjoyment and keep In service, at one thing or another, all day and welt Into each evening, and tho motor farm wagon that wH haul a ton, and make quick Ume at doing It. up to tho big twenty ton tractors that aro being seen In Ari zona and axe proving Immensely success Jul. Slojors In the Fields. Tli e farmer of the west Is not satisfied with one typo or kind of motor vehicle. He quickly gets beyond the stage ot a single car or truck and sees money In a 'fleet," rach adapted to some apecUl purpose. Along with scientific farming has come the study on the part of each owner to nave time and labor cost and eliminate lost motion as much as possible Thin tho progressiva man nowadays who no a sufficient number of acres gets a trec- t'on cnglno for plowing and for hauling his whest. or whatever his crop may be, to thp railroad for shipment. He may do even better Install smaller trucks In ad- d'tlon for carrying his produce speedily. In any event, he will have, tiesides, fccv- eral smaller cars and a runabout for hts own use in visiting his ftnlds and super Intending Nobody walks over a western furm In these motor days. It takes too much time and uses up altogether iJJ much energy. The big and powerful tn- tfnea do the heavy and rcurh work, lighter vehicles moke the trips to mar ket yet still lighter vehicles carry tin -workers to and fro and run the errands that are needtd. Often half a -day's time an be saved by a hurried trip Into the nearest town. , Thp saving Is enormous. With hU rootor vehicles the modern farmer can split his labor ct practically in half. waSe plowing a the big farms. With horses and men the cost per arro rnuM not be pushed below 70 vents. Any good motor tractor now does It for 40 cents ami has the advantage of being able to plow ground that Is too hard for horses and men to turn up without Immense labor. I'hssKf In Knriti llnttilfl. In journeying through the west one finds farms today with but three or four horses, where four or five years ago there were thirty to forty horses and mules kept steadily nt work In tho field, with this change has come a marked Im provement In the quality of farm hands. The old yokel type Is being quickly re placed by the man who Is not only nn agricultural expert, but a skilled me chanic. Ills work Is not tho manual labor that It was. There Is practically no more bruto force and sordid toll about It. It Is the Interesting bossing of mncliln' ory. the power Itself doing tho real work, the man having to guide and control. The new farm-hand costs tho farmer more money a month, but he docs twice or three times the work of his predeces sor. What Is more, he Is satisfied. A day's work does not wear him out. After his day's work Is done, In place of sitting Idly around vegetating he takes a run Into town In one of the smaller cars. The motor truck has done so much to Improve tho condition of agricultural labor that the farmer who has not a truck or a car finds It a very difficult thing these days to get reliable and ef ficient men. The men worth while will not work for him, and he has to content himself with tho leaving of the labor market. In a word, tho motor truck Is rapidly becoming a part of tho newly developing prosperous farm. The farmer now has a telephone, bath tubs, pianos, phono graphs and a lighting plant. Tho motor truck Is simply an annex to nil these. It provides tho ownor with cheap, effec tive and reliable power Tho new farmer looks upon himself as a manufacturer. If he Is sufficiently big In a business way and resourceful, ho has a frame building In ft central location, his office, with a roll-top desk, a stenographer, a book keeper and a private telephono over his lands. He simply superintends and travels over every portion of his "plant" In his own little car, watching his ma ohlnes as carefully as If they wero oil gathered together under one roof. Ho "systematizes" In cost production pre cisely as If ho were running a factory. Profitable I'orrrr Wimom, Of courso, comparatively few furmers, even In the most prosperous sections, have managed to build up farming plants llko these, but many hundreds are work lng along In that direction, and. If need be, borrowing ffiOnOV to Minim nn on power wagons of dlfforcnt sorts. The? find it profitable. The farmer no longer grows crops haphaxord and then bewails me pnee ne gets from the middleman. Nowadays he is constantly studying two tilings; first, to lower his cost of pro duction materially, secondly, to get his good to market moro cheaply. The motor truck has proved that it can solve both problems for him. and thus the sales of theee vehicles are increasing be. yond all prophecies, th-i- i are studying local agricultural conditions everywhere and Inventing new trucks and wagons to suit special needs. .. 7L . qUMt,on of Be"'" to market. M.well as managing the farm, big or lit tle, more economically,, the motor truck 5 Evolution. A vast amount J.enrd for th8 la,t three "wades Sf yet Jlttle, te' latlvely, has been done 'to date, when the entire country is considered, dose to he EtE k "'vards. d V..V11 ' m " D0 "-OKnowledgcd, Is steadily Improving. Hut there v. ...... of wretched , -tura..; ,H " "osiacie to his pros- Perity. No matter t,nn, .. , , "rm' hlS cnn"t be fully his trading town are In a wretched state Till 2.!J,' Co" Analysed. llll now the rnnn.i. i . " wllng-lneffecTrv ,;. T0lay with h . rnXn;'vThn,rr . t t'lt'-, h!jBL"tn" the farm I, farm. have " B!ent-..tha' analysed haulage co.d find' ,i ruinously hlch TOm! d tll0,n Kood dsta'dlng'tromo TnTS ri. appreciably. The ftt- m u WU1 been fJr".. The farmers who have rnii" i. Mt.uon or "good CADILLAC HAS AUTOMATIC rAr UUNTR0L FOR AUTOS For years effnrla ,..,. .. i. voon made driver of the necessity of constant at tention to the sDnrk i. ... i r . . cng,no must be con stantly shifting the snnrl, l ' varying conditions of travel speed, hill climbing, heavy roads, etc. ine problem has been solved In the new Cadi lao bv - v..r . ... xnB . - fcciuuus ap plication of the rlntr action Is such that as the speed of the engine Increases, tho spark Is auto matlcalty advanced nnrt - .... .. cally retarded is th a decreases. It automatically prevonts the damage which may be raustd by either too much or Insufficient spark advance. Tho driver can m hi. Llever when he starts out and then for- jSV 11. SHOWS "TWO-STORIED" KELLY TRUCKS UNIQUELY A clover and novel method of show, lng the different models of Kelly trucks has been orlglnuted by Frank O. Miner, manager of central and southern rn. fornla for Tho Kelly-Sprtngfleld Motor iTucK company. Surinirf eld. O. Th tw,. principal models of the Kelly line at present aro the one and three-ton trucks. When Mr. Miner starts out tn nrL. a demonstration to a prosDect. he h!f the one-ton truck on the body of the mree-ionner and la thus able to show boui trucks at tho suine time. This novel method of showing the Una hu made a decided hit and large crowds watch the progress of the two-storied vemcie tnrough tha streets ot San Fran' claoo. Turning to "Big Kelly" with a "IJttli Kelly" oozlly (retlng on It he contlned "These are my samples. A man car tell at a glance which truck he wants and I always have both of them with me. I have found that the plan pays and am going to stick to it" Gossip Along the Automobile Row Another automobile company has been forced to obtain larger quarters for the handling of Increased business. The Mollne Auto company how Is in Its new building above Twenty-fourth and Far nam stroets. The Increase In Mollne sales has been continuous since the ar rival of the first of the 1913 line and ac cording to Manager Deal this year will st a new record In the number of cars placed. In a period of considerably less than five years, through All kinds of weather tho little Ford runabout of O. H. Davis, n veterinary surgeon of Sidney, N. T., has taken Its owner more than E0.000 miles, or an average of more than 10,000 miles per year. Miss Barbara Claire Schnebel cele brated last Wednesday the fifth annt varsity of her connection with the Powell Supply company. Starting In as a stenographer. Miss Schnebel now holds the 'office of cashier with the Powell company. T. J. Craig, formerly of the Ilurtlngton freight office, Is now con nected With the Powell people. The W. I Hoffman Auto company de livered the following Hupmobles through out Its territory the last week: Culberi-son-Englo. company. Long Pine, Neb., one carload!' Atlantic Hupmobtle com pany, Atlantic, la., one carload; John Hokom, Ong, Neb., one touring car: John N, T. Hansen, McLean, Neb., one touring car; O. U. Ira, Lynch. Neb., two touring cars; Stephen Schultz, Hastings, Neb., one delivery car; McCook Machinery and Iron Works, McCook, Neb., one touring car; Ilobtnson company, DeSmet, S. D., one carload; J. 11. Johnson, manager Davidson Brothers' department store of 6I0UX City, la., Pathfinder Cruiser roadster. John Drew, the famous actor who will appear In Omaha this week, owns and drives a 1913 Hudson Six touring car. Mr. Dew has owned several foreign automo biles, biit nays the Hudson ts tho best yet Mr. and Mrs. Drew are both en thusiastic motorists. Ouy L. Smith re ports tho sales of four nnd six cylinder seven-passenger Hudson cars last week. The Apperson Auto company deltvered cars at Woodbine, Walnut and Bloom field last week, also making deliveries to Fred Signal of this city and A. J. Brown of South Omaha. The local Ap person house has beon receiving a car load of three Apperson machines every day for seventeen days, and is yet a long way from being even with the orders on hand. The Midland Auto company made two three-car and two five-car contracts last week. A. L. Bennett of Gregory, bought Ave Midland machines outright one a six and the other four-cylinder cars. William Hagenmaster of Arcadia visited the Midland people Wednesday, pur chased a Mason S5 and started overland for hpme by way of Lincoln. Dr. Ed toards of this city bought a five-passenger Mason early In the week. A ship ment of Midland sixes and four orrlved at the'Jpcol hou' Friday morning. The Stewart-Tooser Motor company has Just received the "it" seven-passenger Pierce Arrow car. which thev oM somo time ago to Charles Met. This car has been painted and trimmed In accordance with Mr. Mett's Idea and Is of a royal blue color, with a light blue stripe and black moulding, with trim mings of brass nnd black enamel. This car will be on exhibition at the sales room of the Stewart-Toozer Motor com. pnny, SHI Farnam street, until April 1. The Powell Supply company last week sold a four-cylinder Pierce motorcyole to the Portsmouth Land company of Ports mouth, la. The cycle ts to be used by the firm's representatives In making quick trips to the plots of land under Its control. Immediately Unoh his arrival In ToVln. Lars Anderson, the new American ambas sador to Japan. Purchased n. hrnuHfnt Hudson limousine for the funotlons of the diplomatic Post. Mr. Anderson Is a. very wealthy man and could have nur. chased a much higher priced car, but the reputation of the Hudson nnd Its elegant appearance made the right lnmresMon on his keen business mind. The Stewart-Tooxer comnanv has nl,l C. D. Mullen of Lincoln a "" Pierce atow io oe aeuverea about May 1. This will be painted In autumn brown with trimmings of nickel nnd black enamel. A six-cylinder, five-passenger Chalmers car was sold to George W. Loomls of the 2 Slightly Used Cadillac Cars! t at a specially I Low price for cash! 1-1912 riRliss thin 3f 510 Milts 1-1911 rm about 7,200 miles Better S6 2056 Farnam Street t umAnA Burlington and a Chalmers machine to B. F. Both of South Omaha. In Germany as well as America, no motor car Is considered fully equipped unless It carries a gcschwlndlgkeltmes ser. The tall, burly word Is exploited by the Studebaker foreign sales department In literature for the use ot Its Berlin branch. Geschwlndlgkeltmesser Is Hohen collern for speedometer. W. L. Huffman attended the automo bile show at Sioux City last week and Incidentally visited tho branch house at Bioux Falls. S. D. Mr. Huffman re ports business flourishing In South Da kota, and predicts an enormous business through that branch. According to Jack Evans, local agent for the Overland models, the Willys Overland oomp'any has announced sfn additional Investment of $800,000 In the common stock of the Garford company, making Its total Investment In that com pany more than $2,000,000. The capacity of the Gnfford plant will be Increased from six to fifteen cars a day, Arthur Storx of the Storz Supply com pany, volunteers tho bit of Information below tor the benefit of automoblllsts. "In measuring tho amount of gasoline In the tank by means of a stick, be euro the stick Is clean, not only of dirt, but of any matter which might be loosened by being partially dissolved by the gaso line. The object Is, of course, to pre vent the Introduction of foreign particles Into the gasoline, to clog up the feed Pipe." C. 8. McKee, manager of the Inter State Auto company. Is spending tho week In South Dakota on a contracting trip. South Dakota has been one of the strongholds ot this car In the past, ami If advance orders and demands are means of prediction, the Inter-State Is bound to have a better year than ever In the state. Manager McKee has already closed a bunch of good sized contracts. J. B. Kelly of Lincoln was a visitor at the Traynor Auto company last week, where he negotiated for a specially con structed National roadster. Di . L. C. Kohn of the Western Auto Supply company, states that business for this concern has opened up very early, but deliveries from the factories are slow, owlofl to the open winter. The Uemy magneto service station has been turned over to the Western Auto Supply company on account of this flrm'H central location In the automobile dis trict. This station will be ready at all times to help Its patrons solve any ques. ttons that may come up about their product. The Wilson Auto company did a splen did business last week, delivering cars to the following: A Studebaker 25 to It F. Bratnard of Omaha, a 25 to Oeorgo W. Schlndel ot Omaha, a 20 roadster to the Peters Trust company, a S3 touring car to the Dodge-Wallace company ot Council Bluffs, a 33 to Chris Korbmaker of South Omaha and a 86 to I Bhamolln of South Omaha. The local Overland house delivered two machines at Schuyler, four at O'Neill and one at Wiener. This house besides doing a large contracting business ts counting on big retail sales In the city this spring and has already completed arrangements for aqyerU Jarge shlpmeptr from the factory. R. T. Brown of Stapleton, Neb., came to Omaha last Thursday and purchasod a Rio roadster of Doty & Hathaway, In which he started for his home, a dis tance ot 375 miles, the same day. As It was raining veny hard Mr. Doty tried to persuade Mr. Brown from making the trip, but Brown said that as long as It was a Reo he was going In he did not worry, as he had seen Reos surmount much more serious obstacles than a little water. The Nebraska Carter Car company Is fully established In Its new abodo at 2113 Farnam, and Is very proud of the fact that It Is now the largest sales plant .'n the west., The Mclntyre Auto company wlll're celvo Its first shipment of tho Oakland SSs this week. Manager Mclntyre says that he has received more Inquiries about this particular car than for any other Oakland car that has yet made Its ap pearance in Omaha. He has sold four of these within the last ten days. This first shlpnent of Dart trucks will also arrive this week and they have occasioned no small amount of Interest throughout the state as well as in Omaha. The Rambler Auto company dellverel a Cross Country to Houston Bros, of Holmesvllle last week. The Auto Supply Jobbers' Retail as soclatlon, composed ot all the .supply them at houses In the city, met last week and discussed prospects and affairs for tho coming season. The Mitchell Motor company delivered last week n 1913 "Little Six" to Glen Wharton, a six-cylinder roadster to Buzz" Colpetzer, a slx-oyllnder roadste to F. L. Rucker of Broken Bow, a two passenger four-cylinder coupe to W. V. Norman and a Mitchell seven-passenger limousine to J. C. Colt. Carload ship ments were made to the Watsm Auto company of Sioux City, the MocKett Auto company of Lincoln, Schlentx Uros. of David City. Council Bluffs Auto com pany and F. II. Bcebo of Beebe,town, la. The Nebraska Bulck Auto company re ports the following city deliveries for the week; A model 24 roadster to the Dreibus Candy company, a model 25 touring car to E. W. Stoltenburg, a model 25 touring car to F. W. Mosher, a model 24 road ster to M. T. Martin and a model 25 to Paul I Martin, a model 31 touring car to Guy Leggltt, a model 31 to W. C. Lyle. a model 31 to Paul Kepler and a model 30 to M. Bruce Carpenter. They also re port the following out-of-town deliver ies: Three model 258 to Sparks & Jack son, Valentine; model 31 to Ernest Wag ner, Graf, Neb.; a model 25 to Fase & Elwell, Springfield, and a model 23 to Charles Soar, 'Silver City, la. Lee Huff of the Nebraska Bulck Auto company spent Friday and Saturday nt Harlan, la., aslstlng F. A. Hulsabus, the Bulck agent at that place, who was put ting on a regular automobile show for the benefit of his customers In that nart , 1 Tire Economy- , II Tire Security il Tire Comfort That is tho "Firestone" combination particu larly on NON-SKID Tires. Economy of longest wear Security against accident Com fort of extra resiliency. Tirestonc skid JLires Cost most to build but cost you least to use. Ask for Book "What'BWhat In Tires." 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