Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1917 — Crops on Wheels. [ARTICLE]

Crops on Wheels.

•• Bumper crops in New Jersey are being put on wheels and rolled right into the city markets, fresher and faster this year than ever before, and for the first time since the growing of perishable products became an extensive industry in the state the farmers feel themselves to some degree independent of railroad schedules and freight rates. Motor trucks have solved the problem of fast delivery for Jersey farmers. Hundreds of big cars, some of them with a carrying capacity of several tons, have been put on the roads between the farms and markets this season. Many of these auto trucks are owned by the farmers themselves, .having been purchased to replace horses and market wagons.