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ries in such a way as to bring them to the consumers 

 without loss. We shall see the vehicle before long 

 that will speed the producer to the consumer, over 

 a distance of twenty-five or thirty miles each morn- 

 ing. 



Our present limitations for producers who must 

 touch customers early in the day is about ten miles 

 possibly twenty for non-perishable products. This 

 creates a narrow zone about each city, outside of 

 which there is a very restricted opportunity for the 

 gardener and orchardist. We need and must have 

 this zone widened to forty or fifty miles. In that 

 way we shall equalize conditions, and turn the whole 

 land into one overspread garden. The automobile 

 points the way to this most desirable country life. 

 We must have State roads, smooth for transit, so 

 that produce wagons may reach a safe speed of 

 twelve miles an hour. 



But are we quite sure, in this forest of telephones, 

 trolleys, autos, and other discoveries and inventions 

 that are crowding the beginning of the twentieth 

 century, that ere long city purchasers will not come 

 our way more than we go theirs, speeding among the 

 country homes, before breakfast, to find what they 

 want for the day's supply, instead of waiting to have 

 it brought to their doors? It is not quite clear how 

 far aviation may help along this line. 



We shall plow together and reap together and 

 possibly store together. Why not? We do this 

 as soon as our goods leave home ; why is it impossible 



