Transportation and Power
A solution to your transportation and power needs, from the Have-More Plan.
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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.
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SOME kind of car is almost a necessity in the country. Even
so, present day cars are not very satisfactory for
productive country living.
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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.
