AN ALL-ROUND SERVICE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 631, 6 April 1929, Page 27

AN ALL-ROUND SERVICE

THE OLD CAR ON THE FARM That the motor-car is destined to prove a big feature of the farm, not only as a means of pleasure, but in actual farm work, is rapidly becoming evident, states a writer in the “Cape Times.” Within a few seasons it is expected it will be taking the place of horses in many branches of farm work, and also used in furnishing power for small machinery. Already motor-cars are being used in some

sections as stationary engines in propelling churns, turning circular sawi, grinding feed, running sheep shears, even for baling machines. The motors furnish cheap power and can easily be rigged in such a manner that they can be used in propelling almost any machinery by the use of a belt. One man used his motor for running a circular saw, and got out thousands of pieces of wood with which to make boxes for fruit, thus saving the expense of mill work.

One farmer in Rhodesia puts his motor to a multiplicity of uses. It is run as a pleasure car at times, and can carry a party of 10 persons, which it has done a number of times, over country roads for many miles at a good rate of speed. It brings his market supplies to his place twice a week, delivers his goods about the town and country, hands meat to many points, and is used extensively in farm work in transporting various things about the premises where they may be needed, even carrying coal from a yard to his home. It hauls grain to the fields and carries anything needed. Recently it was pressed into service in delivering posts and rails about a section of the farm where they were to be used, carrying, them from the woods some distance away. Meanwhile the three horses on the place are used for other purposes, but have been having an easy time since the motor-car arrived, spending most °f the time in the green pastures in summer, or in the barn stalls during the winter. “I would not be without the car on the farm.” says the owner. “It is cheaper than using horses, and costs less than their feed and care to operate. It is always there for use, and there is no chasing of it about a field tor half an hour.”