Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1915 — Farmers and Automobiles. [ARTICLE]

Farmers and Automobiles.

Take the 10 states of the Middle West known as the grain belt: Illinois, lowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas, South Dekota. North Dakota and Oklahoma. Four years ago these 10 states owned 130,000 automobiles; the proportion of farm machines was perhaps one in ten. The number of motor-cars in these 10 states has quadrupled in the last three years and more than don: bled in the last two years, so that on January 1, 1915, by figures furnished by the various secretaries of state, the number of cars was 659,730. jOf.this, immense total fully one-half -belong to fanners. The number in the 10 states js increasing at the rate of 13,000 machines a month, 425 a day. The average value of these machines was S9BO. —Farm and Fireside. . m . ' : ■? .. •* ui « - - :