Transportation and Power

Image Gallery A Utility Trailer plus the family car is worth consideration. This home-made trailer is built low to facilitate loading . . . carries 2 animals . . . has many other uses.

SOME kind of car is almost a necessity in the country. Even so, present day cars are not very satisfactory for productive country living.

Today cars are made primarily for city dwellers. That is they are made to transport people and only people. In the country on a small farm there's a lot of other things in addition to people that you want to move. To name a few: lumber, hay, grain, livestock, poultry, firewood, gravel, cement, earth, produce. On a large farm a truck is probably a worthwhile investment but on a small place there is not enough work for a truck and there's many a need that a truck won't solve.

There are countless jobs around a small place that you can get done a lot easier with some power equipment. Until recently, the manufacturers more or less turned their backs on the small farmer. Now they realize the terrific potentiality in supplying the small landowner and a number of power units for the small place are coming on the market.

In trying to decide how best to solve our Transportation and Power needs we made up the table below. Perhaps this will help you solve your problems. All prices are estimated for new equipment; obviously good secondhand equipment may be bought cheaper.

For example, in place of the 9,000 "garden type tractors" manufactured yearly before the war, over 100,000 are expected to be sold post-war. The "garden tractor" people are trying to put out better and more powerful machines. At the same time the manufacturers of large-scale tractors are developing smaller models for use on farms of 40 acres or less. All this can only result in better and cheaper power equipment for the small land-owner.