FARM EQUIPMENT
Nearly every third farm in the Unit’d States hadat least one automobile on :he first day of last year. Of the j, 1 448,366 farms in the United States, 1,979,564, or 30.7 per cent., reported laving automobiles to the number of 2,146,512. Motor trucks were reported m 131,551 farms in 1920, or about two arms out of every 100 in the I]ruled States as a whole. The number of moor trucks on these farms was 139,169. fhree and six-tenths per cent, of the farms in the country were reported as raving tractors on January 1, 1920. I’his is about one farm out of every 28. JTio 229,334 farms thus represented had i total of 245,139 tractors. Telephones vere reported on 2,508,002 farms, or 58.9 per cent, of all farms in the United States, in 1920. More than one-half of .lie farms in 14 States had telephones, farms reporting water piped into the muse in 1920 numbered 644,088, or .bout one farm out of every 10. Tlio Kircentage was highest in the New Engand States and in California. Gas or deetric light was reported on 452,809 arms, or 7 per cent, of all farms in the 7idled States.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 11 October 1922, Page 6
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199FARM EQUIPMENT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 11 October 1922, Page 6
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