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VOL. LXI PUBLIC LIBRARY .ft fl fl r "* ___.A__.A__.__-A__.A__. A______.A___.A__. INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 18, 1906. NO. 33 FARM RAPID TRANSIT. Evolution of the Automobile and the Wild-Eyed Chauffeur. Is the Power Road Wagon to Become Popular? Nobody feared that the noble horse was to te superseded by the road wagon propelled by electricity and gasoline. That wns not the trouble nor cause of the bitter oppositon to the auto. It was the along and took the wounded man to his home. Who was the auto driver? He came from South Bend and that was all thnt could be learned. These are but incidents of scores which are occuring constantly in this and other States, ns reported from time to time. Wns it any wonder that farmers began to carry tlieir guns in their wagons and buggies when they started on the public roads, as people of burglar-ridden city homes put them under their pillows? They felt it a duty to potect their lives and property from the wantonness of these road-fiends. ■ Automobile.— First Period. wild-eyed chauffeur driving the carmine specter, burnished in brass and with fantastic trimmings, and which went panting and leaping at the rate of twenty to thirty miles an hour, pell mell over the rough country roads, as if the driver owned the right of way, and as much as to say to the horse and buggy, "get out of the way, the horse's day is passed—look at me." That is what nettled people on the public road, and it was surely enough to nettle them. An exciting incident reported of this intruder which occurred in this State was in Tippecanoe county, on a Wea prairie road. One of these auto drivers came dashing down the road meeting a lady driving a spirited horse, the auto wheezing and panting, never checking, and the horse and buggy were dashed into the ditch, throwing the lady out, breaking her arm, and wrecking the buggy to the amount of forty dollars for repairs. Who was the auto driver? AH that could be learned wns that it came from the direction of Lafayette. The farmer had to pay for setting the broken limb and for buggy repairing. In what did that incident differ from the burglar entering the house ia the dark and escaping with his stolen booty? Nothing except in the different Quality of the crime. Then came a report of a similar affair which occurred on the road near South Bend. In this incident the auto was driving at twenty-five miles an hour, and With its screaming compressed air horn passed a wagon and two horses at a sharp turn in a narrow road, tearing a hind wheel from the wagon and causing the horses to run, nnd otherwise wrecking the wagon, killing one of the horses and breaking the driver's leg. The auto never halted, but good Samaritans came It is a new and deadly enemy they are meeting on the public roads, made upon the lands donated from their own farms and built by the sweat of their faces. The public nnd their neighbors were indeed welcome to the use of the roads, but not at the expense of their property, and of the lives of themselves and families. And so the war goes on. Who can blame them? No one. Who has the temerity to defend the wild-eyed chauffeur? None The auto-fiend simply runs away with his machine and hides. The farmers pay for wagon and buggy repairs, bind up broken limbs and bury their dead, slain on the roads. When Will the Change Come. That is the query in the minds of thousands in peril when using the public roads. It will not down. Has the demand for rapid transit overtaken the supply of horses? Is there such a dearth of labor as to require men to do what two or three formerly did? Is this desire for rapid movement an extension of the other systems of Inbor-saving devices? If so, it may be answered that in the case of steam railways in superseding stage coaches, electric interurban roads in supplementing steam roads, modern harvesters in replacing the old reaping hooks and grain cradles, and of the other modern labor- saving devices, so much life and property were not destroyed in introducing them. It need not be so now in the changes going on for more rapid movement. The fault lies with the senseless drivers of these modern road wagons. The courts are recognizing this fact. In New York, Ohio, Indiana and other States, the courts are beginning to make examples of these drivers by convicting them of their crimes, fining them and sending some to prison. Perhaps in this way we are to be led out of the prevailing dangers ou the roads. If this rapid travel is desirable and necessary in our modern civilization, all classes of people are entitled to it, nnd under laws requiring proper care and judgment the automobiles may yet come loto favor. The scarcity of labor on tlie farm is perhaps felt more than anywhere else. The farmer himself is greatly taxed for time iu which to look after his farm and market his products. Here and there on ihis account, farmers are beginning t< se power wagons. His butter ai. *rishable fruits and vegetables, ig him the most money, must . 1. He has his town and city but he can't spare a whole da. irket in the old way, for his time most val ualle. To deliver t.i to his customers he has from fj the balance of the day nn. t superintending the farm, or on vator, or running the harvester, How is he to do so much? By movements is the only way.. I!i can he afford it? Pretty soon he haul corn, nnd apples, and potatoes, ajd sugar beets and other farm stuff to some neighborhood or co-operative farm factory and have them manufactured iuto tinl alcohol. Some big factory wi be making autos and power road v at reasonable prices. Then at 5 a. m., at a 20 mile clip he can do his marketing and be home nt 7:30 for breakfast and the farm duties. Thus the scarcity of farm labor may be overcome, at least in part, and time will be economized. By that time the auto and road drivers will, through court fines and other punishment, become more sensible, and the few horses on the road will become familiar with the power wagons. And so, as steam railways superseded stages, and interurban electrics supplemented the awfully burdened steam roads mony and brotherly love. We all come through great tribulations, but all the same we get there. "First the blade, then the ear, then the full grown corn in the ear" is the natural order. The world moves forward in its industrial energies much as in everything else. Forward movements are often ill- timed and in their first stages imperfections appenr aud are made worse by mismanagement. These cause sweeps backward and forward, like the ancient travels in the wilderness. Leaders fall by the way and perish, but if the principles involved are right nothing can stop the final consummation. And so there is coming to meet the demand great competition in the production of facilities to cheapen rapid transit to the isolated farmer, who has neither steam nor electric roads passing his door, and the present monopoly in fuel for this purpose will be overcome by the use of the raw products of the farm out of which it is to be made. Ihe Auto Market Wagon. owner of a big poultry farm a few ii Buffalo, N. Y., who makes a three times a week over the gravel road at the rate of 20 miles an hour. The farm is finely situated for poultry, with an abundance of good water, and is divided off into lots and fields in which to run the chicks, 100 or more in a lot, and never has any chicken cholera or other trouble among them. He is preparing to grow enough alfalfa to feed them so as to afford a rich cheap protein food, so essential for chickens, which is to be fed with other feeds more concentrated. The broilers are prepared for market the day before marketing and put in cold i'i'i ./,.,i i,:y ' i,tw_V_fmwr<_i_. ' 'A' *VW*!;i*/.V...*W _.~-i_ *ll«l:.Ml Automobile.—Second Period. SIP in the nick of time, to meet the public demands, cheap industrial alcohol will probably take the place of the Standard oil monopoly in gasoline to propel engines in doing farm work and automobiles for the farmers who d<5 not live on railroad and interurban electric lines, to help him to quickly do his marketing, take his family to church, or to Fourth of July celebrations, and to live as much in a week as formerly in a month, just as other people are doing. That is the way the world may soon be getting on to gether in har- storage on the farm over night, and are then whirled to market in the auto-wagon in a few minutes at an early hour. He finds the auto market wagon a great convenience and saves much time in marketing. A careless driver of an auto caused the horse and buggy driven by a lady to run away in western Ohio a few days ago, was arrested and fined $75 and was required to pay repairs for the broken buggy.
Object Description
Title | Indiana farmer, 1906, v. 61, no. 33 (Aug. 18) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA6133 |
Date of Original | 1906 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | United States - Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Title | Page 1 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
Rights Statement | Content in the Indiana Farmer Collection is in the public domain (published before 1923) or lacks a known copyright holder. Digital images in the collection may be used for educational, non-commercial, or non-for-profit purposes. |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Digitization Information | Orignal scanned at 300 ppi on a Bookeye 3 scanner using internal software. Display images generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
Transcript | VOL. LXI PUBLIC LIBRARY .ft fl fl r "* ___.A__.A__.__-A__.A__. A______.A___.A__. INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 18, 1906. NO. 33 FARM RAPID TRANSIT. Evolution of the Automobile and the Wild-Eyed Chauffeur. Is the Power Road Wagon to Become Popular? Nobody feared that the noble horse was to te superseded by the road wagon propelled by electricity and gasoline. That wns not the trouble nor cause of the bitter oppositon to the auto. It was the along and took the wounded man to his home. Who was the auto driver? He came from South Bend and that was all thnt could be learned. These are but incidents of scores which are occuring constantly in this and other States, ns reported from time to time. Wns it any wonder that farmers began to carry tlieir guns in their wagons and buggies when they started on the public roads, as people of burglar-ridden city homes put them under their pillows? They felt it a duty to potect their lives and property from the wantonness of these road-fiends. ■ Automobile.— First Period. wild-eyed chauffeur driving the carmine specter, burnished in brass and with fantastic trimmings, and which went panting and leaping at the rate of twenty to thirty miles an hour, pell mell over the rough country roads, as if the driver owned the right of way, and as much as to say to the horse and buggy, "get out of the way, the horse's day is passed—look at me." That is what nettled people on the public road, and it was surely enough to nettle them. An exciting incident reported of this intruder which occurred in this State was in Tippecanoe county, on a Wea prairie road. One of these auto drivers came dashing down the road meeting a lady driving a spirited horse, the auto wheezing and panting, never checking, and the horse and buggy were dashed into the ditch, throwing the lady out, breaking her arm, and wrecking the buggy to the amount of forty dollars for repairs. Who was the auto driver? AH that could be learned wns that it came from the direction of Lafayette. The farmer had to pay for setting the broken limb and for buggy repairing. In what did that incident differ from the burglar entering the house ia the dark and escaping with his stolen booty? Nothing except in the different Quality of the crime. Then came a report of a similar affair which occurred on the road near South Bend. In this incident the auto was driving at twenty-five miles an hour, and With its screaming compressed air horn passed a wagon and two horses at a sharp turn in a narrow road, tearing a hind wheel from the wagon and causing the horses to run, nnd otherwise wrecking the wagon, killing one of the horses and breaking the driver's leg. The auto never halted, but good Samaritans came It is a new and deadly enemy they are meeting on the public roads, made upon the lands donated from their own farms and built by the sweat of their faces. The public nnd their neighbors were indeed welcome to the use of the roads, but not at the expense of their property, and of the lives of themselves and families. And so the war goes on. Who can blame them? No one. Who has the temerity to defend the wild-eyed chauffeur? None The auto-fiend simply runs away with his machine and hides. The farmers pay for wagon and buggy repairs, bind up broken limbs and bury their dead, slain on the roads. When Will the Change Come. That is the query in the minds of thousands in peril when using the public roads. It will not down. Has the demand for rapid transit overtaken the supply of horses? Is there such a dearth of labor as to require men to do what two or three formerly did? Is this desire for rapid movement an extension of the other systems of Inbor-saving devices? If so, it may be answered that in the case of steam railways in superseding stage coaches, electric interurban roads in supplementing steam roads, modern harvesters in replacing the old reaping hooks and grain cradles, and of the other modern labor- saving devices, so much life and property were not destroyed in introducing them. It need not be so now in the changes going on for more rapid movement. The fault lies with the senseless drivers of these modern road wagons. The courts are recognizing this fact. In New York, Ohio, Indiana and other States, the courts are beginning to make examples of these drivers by convicting them of their crimes, fining them and sending some to prison. Perhaps in this way we are to be led out of the prevailing dangers ou the roads. If this rapid travel is desirable and necessary in our modern civilization, all classes of people are entitled to it, nnd under laws requiring proper care and judgment the automobiles may yet come loto favor. The scarcity of labor on tlie farm is perhaps felt more than anywhere else. The farmer himself is greatly taxed for time iu which to look after his farm and market his products. Here and there on ihis account, farmers are beginning t< se power wagons. His butter ai. *rishable fruits and vegetables, ig him the most money, must . 1. He has his town and city but he can't spare a whole da. irket in the old way, for his time most val ualle. To deliver t.i to his customers he has from fj the balance of the day nn. t superintending the farm, or on vator, or running the harvester, How is he to do so much? By movements is the only way.. I!i can he afford it? Pretty soon he haul corn, nnd apples, and potatoes, ajd sugar beets and other farm stuff to some neighborhood or co-operative farm factory and have them manufactured iuto tinl alcohol. Some big factory wi be making autos and power road v at reasonable prices. Then at 5 a. m., at a 20 mile clip he can do his marketing and be home nt 7:30 for breakfast and the farm duties. Thus the scarcity of farm labor may be overcome, at least in part, and time will be economized. By that time the auto and road drivers will, through court fines and other punishment, become more sensible, and the few horses on the road will become familiar with the power wagons. And so, as steam railways superseded stages, and interurban electrics supplemented the awfully burdened steam roads mony and brotherly love. We all come through great tribulations, but all the same we get there. "First the blade, then the ear, then the full grown corn in the ear" is the natural order. The world moves forward in its industrial energies much as in everything else. Forward movements are often ill- timed and in their first stages imperfections appenr aud are made worse by mismanagement. These cause sweeps backward and forward, like the ancient travels in the wilderness. Leaders fall by the way and perish, but if the principles involved are right nothing can stop the final consummation. And so there is coming to meet the demand great competition in the production of facilities to cheapen rapid transit to the isolated farmer, who has neither steam nor electric roads passing his door, and the present monopoly in fuel for this purpose will be overcome by the use of the raw products of the farm out of which it is to be made. Ihe Auto Market Wagon. owner of a big poultry farm a few ii Buffalo, N. Y., who makes a three times a week over the gravel road at the rate of 20 miles an hour. The farm is finely situated for poultry, with an abundance of good water, and is divided off into lots and fields in which to run the chicks, 100 or more in a lot, and never has any chicken cholera or other trouble among them. He is preparing to grow enough alfalfa to feed them so as to afford a rich cheap protein food, so essential for chickens, which is to be fed with other feeds more concentrated. The broilers are prepared for market the day before marketing and put in cold i'i'i ./,.,i i,:y ' i,tw_V_fmwr<_i_. ' 'A' *VW*!;i*/.V...*W _.~-i_ *ll«l:.Ml Automobile.—Second Period. SIP in the nick of time, to meet the public demands, cheap industrial alcohol will probably take the place of the Standard oil monopoly in gasoline to propel engines in doing farm work and automobiles for the farmers who d<5 not live on railroad and interurban electric lines, to help him to quickly do his marketing, take his family to church, or to Fourth of July celebrations, and to live as much in a week as formerly in a month, just as other people are doing. That is the way the world may soon be getting on to gether in har- storage on the farm over night, and are then whirled to market in the auto-wagon in a few minutes at an early hour. He finds the auto market wagon a great convenience and saves much time in marketing. A careless driver of an auto caused the horse and buggy driven by a lady to run away in western Ohio a few days ago, was arrested and fined $75 and was required to pay repairs for the broken buggy. |
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