TELEPHONES FOR FARMERS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 8 April 1908, Page 8

TELEPHONES FOR FARMERS

A writer on a Chicago daily paper authority for t' c statement that one of the largest operators m Western omd NorthWestern lands — a man who thinks nothing of entering a deal involving 100,000. acres ox moore — says that the telephone is contributing more to hte quick settlement of newly-opened territories than any other one agency that can be named. It does away with 90 per cent, of the hardships of pioneer life. The telephone is making farming profitable; it enables tke farmer to get the highest market for everything he produces. The business advantage of the telephone, however, is only a small part of its contribution to the welfare of the farmers. There is no more isolation or loneliness on the farm. Neighbors are always within an instant's I call, and the social features oi country life have been increased many fold by placing all the people in the country in such close relationship. It is possible that not until the census of 1910 will we know precisely how many rural telephones there are in use, but. one can gain- a good T9ea of their number from the statement that the Swedish American- Telephone Com pany of Chicago, 111., is installing 50,000 rural telephones every month. This concern, of course, makes a specialty of farmers' telephones.

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