Southern good roads . millionmotor car owners of Ihe ciiuiiti.\. President Robert I, lloiper in a recent announce-iiiiiit that the .\. .\, .\. Would greatly amplify its goodroads campaign had this lo say: In a few years half the automobiles in the TnitedStates will be owned )>y farmers. Both as an agricul-t lirist :iiid as a car Owner man\ farmers now want goodroads, and furthermore, they are willing to pay forhighway improvement, whenever they can jiossibly af- 26 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS December, 1911 fcaxl to do so. Ill some regions, however, they are ob-liged to spend so much money to get t
Southern good roads . millionmotor car owners of Ihe ciiuiiti.\. President Robert I, lloiper in a recent announce-iiiiiit that the .\. .\, .\. Would greatly amplify its goodroads campaign had this lo say: In a few years half the automobiles in the TnitedStates will be owned )>y farmers. Both as an agricul-t lirist :iiid as a car Owner man\ farmers now want goodroads, and furthermore, they are willing to pay forhighway improvement, whenever they can jiossibly af- 26 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS December, 1911 fcaxl to do so. Ill some regions, however, they are ob-liged to spend so much money to get their crops tomarket over the horrible roads that they cannot com-pete -with the districts psosessing better highways. Ofcourse, national and state aid would open these re-gions, and these are the two things which the A. A. for and is willing to co-operate with any organ-izations having similar views. An economic view relating to the adoption of tliemotor-driven velii<-le is quite concisely set forth by Oiled Macadam, Sudbury, Mass. II. Rowe, president of the Automobile Clul> ol. Mary-land, in these words: There are about one liuiidred iiiillion people in theUnited States, approximately as many cattle, sheepand swine, and about twenty niillion horses; so saythe government reports. •A very low estimate of the cost of the feed for thesehorses is one million dollars annually. If the cerealsrequired to feed these twentj million horses, or saythe ten milliDn of them that are used for purposes oth-er than agricultural, and if the and other i^roveii-der required could be turned into cattle, sheep andswine, and their products, and all of this added to thefood supply of the hundred million people, it Avouldreduce the cost of lining proportionately. Does notthis seem to be a silution, in large part, of the great-est of all questions now confronting us—the higli costof living? The motor, in the shape of trucl^s, deliver> wag-ons, road wagons, traction engine
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