South Bend News-Times, Volume 36, Number 222, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 10 August 1919 — Page 21

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New Hauling Farm ProdAutomobile, and Reusmess or ucts to City by i turnirg With Merchandise, tri 2T rohtable, U ntappe vv me a of ndustry.

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HE motor truck &a a means

of transportation between county and city, supplement

ing the ralroad. and In many cases functioning -where there is no railroad, has been a dcrelopment of the use of automobiles which has taken place "frith the last few years. This has occurred particularly in the eastern part of the United. States, but many other lections are adopting the new method of transporting goods between city and county. And why should not trucks be used by the fanners for transporting their produce to the city? When surveyed. thin mode of transportation Is s.n to offer tremendous opportunities for success. The wonder Is that this field was not longer ago exploited and developed. Within a distance of ten to forty miles, or even more, of large cities, there arc farmers, who raise berries, fruits, truck crops, wheat, corn, live etock and many other products for consumption in the cities. These farmers have to deliver or have delivered their produce to the city. In the busy seasons, when farms are yielding abundantly, several trips a wcck are

and as the railroad trip takes longer The-conveyance of farm products by than a trip by wagon, the average motor truck operated by a private lnfarrner prefers to extend hi3 haul to dividual appeals to the farmer for the commission man or the packing many reasons. Often It Is neither plants In the city and personally sell practicable nor efficient for the farmbis goods instead of intrusting this af- er to own and operate his own truck fair to someone else whose Interest Unless he has a very large farm, a certainly Is not the farmer's. truck bought solely for the hauling of It has been no uncommon scene In goods into the city would be idle too many cities for those whose duties or often to make the investment a worth desires keep them out until the hours while one. Consequently, one man. of early morning to see wagon after catering to many farmers, can satisfy wagon, creaking over the cobblestones the wants of all of them, and at the under a heavy load. With a lantern same time keep the capital he has inswinging underneath, a pair of tired vested in a truck constantly In action horses walking soberly along, and a earning him an Income. Ogure or two stooped over on the peat. The speed with which the man menfhe farm wagon coming to market is tinned above can make the haul at a familiar sight to many late stayers. once won the farmers' approbation. Men In Country . From his home to the city is a disHayp Advantage In Trucking. tance of about thirty-five miles. The The farmer, however, has outgrown road3 arc not all that is to be desired, this tiresome, profitless method of but thc? are fa,r an(i the distance transporting his goods. What the n3a' be covered in three hours by mo-

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modern farmer wants is a rapid transportation system which will eliminate the unsatisfactory railroad service, incident to short hauls, and the excessive travel for horse-drawn vehicles. Tho only thing which will meet this want i3 the automobile truck operated

tor. This leaves no comparison between motor and the railroad, which takes twice as long. Intermediate loading is eliminated Instead of being obliged to load stock or other products upon a wagon and drive to the railroad station and un-

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ON RETURN TR,1P INTO COUNTRY neceesary to carry in the edible goods, by himself, or. preferably, by a man load them, the farmer is able to load

One trip a week means, if the farmer who makes hauling a regular business. Uvea any distance at all from the con- There are a number of men in the puming center, virtually a whole day country who are engaged in this busllost, as far as work on the farm for ness. For the most part they are men that day Is concerned. from the rural neighborhoods, thorIn order to bring in his produce, the oughly familiar with conditions surfanner must start the night before the rounding them an advantage which a day on which he hopes to get to the city man would not have should he city. This means an all-night trip Into attempt to enter the business.

town ana an au-cay xnp uacK 10 me Two ycars ago a man we know, con- this i

farm, where both men and horses ar- cc!vcd tne idra tnat he could Iuake my daly trjp tQ the city j rrccivcd a im3l3 had dicd

rive thoroughly ratigueo. rne time money bv buying a truck and goinR telephone caU informing me that a MnilT Krt !)iflirnitIP,

wii.cn wiu into me ousiness oi naunng ior tue certain farmer had a calf which he wise devote to farm work is lost In farrütJrs living around his little town, wanted to sell, and that he wanted addition, an unusually severe strain Accordingly, he made the purchare of mc to drive by his place and get the is put upon the team, which fore- a two.t0n truck, and since then has animal. He told me he would tie the shortens their lives. been coming into a not distant city calf to the mail box at the Junction of The efflcient solution of the dlfücul- on an average of four days out of ev- the main road and the road leading ties created by the necessity of haul- cry wcck up to ni3 farm 0n my way Jn j

ing iariu ruuiia mu luo npvotinc his efforts particularly to stopned there and. sure enouch. the

the carrying of live stock, he has calf was tied to the box. I loaded him developed a business whose steadiness on my truck and sold him three hours is never in doubt. He has more calls later to a packing plant in St. Louis, for space on his truck than he can ac- The farmer telephoned me. That was commodate, and is always dated up all. I never even saw him. It was not for more than a week in advance. He necessary. Cases like this are fre-

has a regular list of between fifty and quent."

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his truck on his farm and depart for the city. "The fact that the farmers can cut out the loading and the wagon haul to a railioad," declared this man

"made them especially favorable to HOGS . CALVF5 AND M SC iE" L LA N FO I JS nAPGO FNPDUTF TO V.üPWP"T

my scheme. Only last week a little incident occurred which shows what reaching its destination at the packing had four teams of horses which he was road's. But the difference in service county were Fkeptlcal. "It can't b a factor for efficiency and convenience plant after it was loaded on the car. using in local hauling. He sold the rendered favors his system so much done," they said. "The Jarring of the

Shortly before I started on When it finally arrived, one of the an- horses and wagons and finds he can that the farmers are willing to pay truck will split and smash tho ber-

c!o more and better work with his one him the difference. He charges 50 ries." and "You won't be able to detruck. A truck dots not get sort1 necks cmts per 100 pounds. The rcllroads crease the time of travel because cf 2nd shoulders, it does Dot die at the are very nearly that price. On a load interference from wagons on th rate of one or two a season. When of furniture, machinery, groceries and road," were tho cheerful criticisms ofk lets down, an overhauling will in a the like, carried b'ck from the city to fercd by tho farmers. Siedler was de-

dny or two restore it to normal. his own town, his The service rendered by the motor cents per 100 pounds.

In the Shipping of Cattle. Besides the delay, theft, breakage and shrinkage are factors which increase the unsatisfactoriness of consigning stock to the cattle car. The theft to which all freight ship-

rates Ere 35 termined, however, and set about to Basing his cai- show them that their fears were

use of motor truck. But this in turn, does the work so well and swiftly that, for the average farmer, a truck bought polcly to convey stuff to the city would be idle too much to make its purchase profitable. The solution, in turn, to this difficulty, is the opera

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roent has organized a federal police

force to combat the thieves

transport man is not confirmed alone culations on the trip under ordinary groundless, to mere hauling of material between circumstances, he states that the yield He. loaded

a truck loaded with ci0Zrn case3

the track first with a of eggs from his owx

tion of a motor truck line by a private Eevcnty.five clients, whose business he Possibly the greatest element of at-

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aee means injurv or disease among the selling tneir stock in the cattle The jostling of a car as it is CIt for and carrying tho money being switched about and the unsani- back to Now. however, he no tary condition of the cars, cause in- lonPrr lo this, as the danger of rob4rci and sickness which decrease bcr' or of losing the money -lS too

individual to cater to the transportation wants of all the farmers in a community or along an established highway. KallroaJs Are Xot Practical for Short Hauls.

The use cf the railroads is lmprac

never fails to get.

traction for the farmer about motor

materially the value of stock. rrani me risk. i j .im

Shrinkage is an important Item, un -is a3 agent,

however.

I.lvfl stork however, is net h!3 OnlV truck tram;nnrt.Ttlnn r.f tv; a c . . . .. . . - . i, Whrn ho tal-f.e o 1., .

. t "vu tz'jxjya ia tnis raiiroaa trip oi oo mut c ui goons o marinterest, nor is the return trip ever an the elimination of railroad trouble. If snrinkaEe on steers is from 7 tq 10 per ket &e personally makes sure taat the empty one. He also carries poultry, a farmer has some cattle which he ent and on nogs from 12 to 15 per farmer for whom he is hauling gets ffrs and other nroduce. and he al- Wishes to shin hv trifn n thn riv . .-j vi. t full credit for rvM. .

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tance, when one considers that this ehandise accepted by the buyer. Not the business

ways takes back to his home with him and sell, he must combine with his

a load of furniture, machinery, gro- neighbors who also have cattle for sale nirnn tho fnrnrr will receive that leng ago. a farmer In his neivhrv

tlcable in the case of many farms close ceries. feed and the many other ar- m order to obtain a car unless, of lcs3 in money than he ought to. was offered 19 cents a hundred pounds to a large community, and in some ticks which are needed in the rural course, he hi-s sufficient himself to fill fince h5s has becn tne trouble and la- for delivered to the ciry. He cases is altogether out of the question, community and supplied by the urban a car. which is the exceptional case. of bringing the stock up to the learned of this before the man acIn the first place, the haul is too short merchants. He must drive his cattle to the town wth at which it was shipped. ce pted the offer. Knowing -hat by to be done profitably by the railroad or After his purchase of the truck, he where the railway sation Is and put There Is no shrinkage in a three- personally accompanying the hog3 to

the farmer himself. The delay la began to fear that the Inevitable aver- the stock in the town stock-pen. along tour motor truck haul. Nor are there market the man could get a better man mentioned hauls very little e!?e waiting for a train rr tho inconveni- slon of mankind to adopting new in- wit& the animals of the other farmers. anr injuries and contractions of dis- price for them, he drove to his farm besides steers. Siedler carries steers ences of meeting one at whatever hour novations would retard the use of his The men thus combining their interest casPi or lncft, 0r tiresome and uncer- and stated his belief. The mm was cnd hogs only occasionally, it may rass through a small country truck, and the employment of his must apply for a car. await its arrival. taja delays. When a farmer wants to billing to try it. so they loaded hogs Siedler operates two trucks. He station makes the use of the railroad scheme. He personally visited the res- an(i then turn their precious potential scn any quantity cf cattle to the on the truck and drove to the city, started in business with two trucks.

Here the man received 20.6 cents per üotli trucks are two-ton models. Ac-

trip usually brings in around $15. Fjon man jn tDe citv instructing the making a total of ?35 for a round trip, driver to be neither overcareful nor He drives his own truck, and, al- ove rcareless with the consignmentlowing a computation for his own jho report of the commission man time, he places the cost of a round trip showed that the breakage was less at HO. This Includes not only the than that tf) fco fcucd arinT3g cast3 of gasoline cost, but also the tire cost. (gs brought to him on horse-drawn truck repairs and truck depreciation, vehicles. Siedler took this report tnother Makes Business of around, and soon was able to persuade Haulinc Fruits and Berries. several farmers to try his method. There is another in this business The first shipment was a success. tv-ot thit we know. Siedler entered r.d the rest of the farmers, who had

in 1912, driving the first staken their Leads sagely and de-

motor truck to be used for hauling ciarea thai motor transportation berries from the vines to the cornmls- would mean a loss of 10 to 15 cents a sion merchant in the city. Siedlcr's tray, forgot their objections, and at activities differ from others, however, one- lined up with Siedler. Since then. Fiedler carries berries, wheat end he has had more requests for room on

truck garden produce, while the first

being

cn the short hauls anything but fcasi- idents of the farm near by. and at beefsteaks and pork chops over to the packing plants. Instead

once secured promises of business, mercies of a cattle car. obliged to combine with other farmers hundred pounds for his hogs, an in- cording to Siedler a heavier truck In virtually every case, too, In order The farmers were Quick to see the ad- This is only the first of the diffi- to obtain a car, and instead of sub- crease of 1.6 cents, besides the saving would prove unsatisfactory on the reft to use the rallroad.it is first necessary vantages of having a man upon whom culties of railroad conveyance of stock. Jecting his stock to the unsatisfactory of at last 10 per cent from shrinkage roads over which he works, to employ wagon transportation to they could rely for speedy transporta- Delay in transit follows. The last service of the railroad, all that is and tiu avoidance of possible loss ije z pioneers. Siedler was convey the products to the station, tlcn of their products to the city. They man whom our friend added to his list necessary is to phone and have the through accident or disease. laughed at and dtrided when he first This means loading and unloading a literally Jumped, at his effer, and he of customers reported that a shipment stock in the barn awaiting the truck- In the matter of price charged for bought a truck and announced his

Wagon and CJUilUo iul .viiam uio ujs utui .ua.' auv uiiiiiunj i-L u.aia- kjl vaiuc nuitu uc uuu uv.cuu i-L.au c uuu o aitimi " itxi uij uu.&. ui3 u i zv, lue uuiwi u uimuju r i un o rrin uu;uts Ol I.ai.l.;: u i - tance, anyway. As this has to be done, taininc a lively business was exaetlv thirty-three hours in Before this man boueht his trurV ar little bit higher than the rail- rics. To a man The farmers cf

his trucks than he can handle, and since the newness wore off the trucks, he can haul berries with absolutely no loss d'je to Jarring and cass of eggs without a single broken shell. Before deciding upon the Innovation (,:' the trucks, Siedler owned and oprated four or five teams. In the busy (a.-aon h" hired three or four more to enrry the brrie? in to the city. A! that time he hauled between 4,0r,0 and 4.i00 trays in a r.irht. Now, with two trucks, he- averages between 2,030 ar.i

j tray?. a:;d mckes more money

r.an y,f, before.

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