Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1904 — WHERE THEIR MONEY GOES. [ARTICLE]

WHERE THEIR MONEY GOES.

Reports to the State Board of Agriculture from over Indiana show that in recent years the most generous spenders of money have been the farmers and this class has been investing its money in machinery with which to not only reduce the farm labor, but to inoieaee the output of the farms The farmer has been going in for some of the luxuries of life, top, particularly in the way of rubbertired buggies and carriages. Thousands of these vehicles have been sold in thia state in the last three or four years, and the prices have come down to a point where it is common for farmers and their sons to buy a new buggy, with oright wheels and rubber tires, every sprit g. The buggy and machinery investmmts have led the manufacturers to not only strive for new ideas which will interest the farmer, but they want to get hold of the farmer himself and show him what they are doing along these lines this year. For this reason there has been a clamor for exhibition space on the State Fair grounds at Indianapolis the week of September 12. Everything which has wheels attached to it and which is of use to the farmer will be on exhibition. The space will all be allotted to the manufacturers long before the Fair opens. On August 1, space had been allotted to twenty-two buggy makers along one drive of the fair grounds, while others will >pitoh their tents as near “buggy row” as Gen. Manager Chas. Downing can get them.