. Agriculture and the farming business . asy and comfortable riding makes a trip to town or to theneighbors a rest and recreation rather than a wearisometask. Thus two birds can be killed with one stone by com-bining pleasure with business. Saving on horses.—^The automobile saves horses. Thefarm teams, heavily built and chunky as they are, are illadapted to traveling on the road. Furthermore, their habitsand training are only for the field, with slow gait and heavyload. Most farm horses when put under saddles or hitchedto the light rig and put upon the road are out of theirelements and easily
. Agriculture and the farming business . asy and comfortable riding makes a trip to town or to theneighbors a rest and recreation rather than a wearisometask. Thus two birds can be killed with one stone by com-bining pleasure with business. Saving on horses.—^The automobile saves horses. Thefarm teams, heavily built and chunky as they are, are illadapted to traveling on the road. Furthermore, their habitsand training are only for the field, with slow gait and heavyload. Most farm horses when put under saddles or hitchedto the light rig and put upon the road are out of theirelements and easily tire. The automobile allows the entireenergy of the horses to be devoted during the workingseason to the labor of the fields. With the automobile at hand the farmer is relativelyindependent as to his trading and marketing. He does nothave to buy at the nearest town nor sell such produce thereas can be conveyed in his automobile. If he finds that hecan secure a better deal at a more distant point, a difference THE FAR^riNG BUSINESS 679. 680 AGRICULTURE AND of ten miles in distance will not count, as this is a matter ofbut a half-hours drive. Driving farm machinery.—Various attachments arenow being devised to use the automobile engine in drivingmachinery on the farm. Small electric motors can be drivenby the engine and used to pump water, churn, grind feed,run the fanning mill, washing machines or do any other oneof the light mechanical jobs demanded around the farmhome. While it may not concern the farmer from thepractical point of view, it is interesting to note that attach-ments are now in use even to run a moving-picture lanternby an automobile. The Louisiana State University usessuch a machine in its extension service among farmers andrural schools, and in promoting the agricultural activitiesamong the boys and girls of the state. Adding to pleasure and recreation.—Not the least ofthe important functions of the automobile as a part of thefarm equipment is in providing
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