Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1920 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

How Farm Production Is Geared to Demand -■ — r £ 4 SINCE the_discovery of petroleum, the per capita production of wheat in the United States has more than doubled, and this in the face of a constantly decreasing percentage in our farm population. The products of petroleum have been largely responsible for the increase. In 1850,90 percent of our people lived on farms; in 1919 only 33 percent of the population was listed as rural. In 1850 the per capita production of wheat was 4.4 bushels, while in 1919 it was almost 9 bushels. On the farms of the Middle West —the bread-basket of the nation—the gas engine is best known. And here this engine is plowing, seeding, and harvesting oy the square mile instead of by the acre, and it is doing the work better, quicker, and cheaper than it could be done by horse-power. These engines must have gasoline, and they must have oil, both products of petroleum. That is why the U. S. Government declares that “petroleum is a basic necessity, as much so as wool or wheat”. The manufacture and distribution of gasoline, lubricating oils, and other petroleum products, have been developed to a high degree of efficiency by the Standard Oil Company (Indiana). This organization, trained by years of experience to anticipate unheralded conditions, has been able to foresee and prepare to meet problems, which, unsolved, might have proved disastrous. Even transportation and other troubles in allied industries have failed to make an appreciable interruption in the steady flow of products from the refineries of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) to the consumers of the Middle West. " ? Standard Oil Company (ZMiiaMiy 910 So. Michigan Ave., Chicago *075

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