March, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
201 
***' When “SHE” Drives 
There isn’t anything you won’t do to make motoring safe 
for her and the kiddies. If you had to you’d be mighty extravagant in order to 
secure “Safety First” for them. 
g But you don’t have to be. Goodrich takes care of that for you. Goodrich puts the 
§H safety in the construction of the tire itself—puts strength and resilience and service in it. And with 
IS all that you have anti-skid, anti-slide, anti-slip sureness in 
Goodrich Treacl Tires 
Best in the Long Run 
We had two cheering sights. One, the 
young apple trees, which were booming 
along with exuberant health, surprising 
all expectation or even hopes; the other 
was the field of potatoes. This was a 
garden of flowers, the white, narcissus¬ 
like blossoms waving in the breeze like 
an undulating sea. Just beyond us were 
the best two potato growers in the town. 
They had better-prepared land than I be¬ 
cause we were reclaiming old pasture, 
but we had a better spray rig. Our land 
was on a hillside,—just right for a wet 
season. From the day the tops appeared 
above the ground until one week before 
the crop was gathered not a single shower 
of rain fell on them! Instead of 300 
bushels to the acre we had just one-half 
that, but at that we beat one of our com¬ 
petitors and nearly equaled the other. 
Moreover, the splendid quality of ours 
commanded a good price. I had cleared 
up some pasture land, and made money 
doing it. , 
I came back from the city work two 
weeks before picking time. The apples 
had grown and grown and grown during 
my absence. I found more than 200 bar¬ 
rels of the finest fruit the orchard had 
ever raised. The idea that the home 
force could pick, pack and deliver these 
apples had to be hastily abandoned. I 
scurried around a country bare of help to 
find it. I wrote to my old-time box 
packer that there was work for him, 
after all. Things began to buzz. 
The packer wrote back that he had 
married a wife, and could not come. Two 
of last year’s helpers offered to tackle the 
job. One had taken the course at Hope 
College, and the other had practiced it by 
himself through the winter. I decided to 
risk them at the work. And, in paren¬ 
theses, let me say that they did good 
work. 
The frost, which had so shortened my 
crop, had destroyed that on every tree 
in the neighborhood. The only apples 
for miles around were those on my 
trees. I went after the local market, and 
went after it hard. I offered a bonus of 
ten cents a barrel to the boys for orders. 
A house-to-house canvass resulted. It 
was a stony-hearted housewife who could 
resist the appeal of our cheery Irish lad: 
“Can I sell you a barrel or two of 
apples, lady?” Orders poured in. A 
prophet is not without honor save in his 
own country. Our apples were less 
known ten miles away than a thousand. 
The country people sampled them and 
ordered more. The telephone brought 
orders; the boys brought orders; the 
R. F. D. brought orders. We were 
cleaned out before we knew it, and had 
to shut down on selling an apple until 
we could take an inventory of those re¬ 
maining. For this year, at least, the mid¬ 
dleman problem was solved. We sold 
and delivered direct to the consumer. 
We cleaned up the orchard, scarcely 
an apple escaped. Before and after pick- 
Besides all that , you get lower-cost mileage. 
The extra thickness of tough Goodrich rubber 
in the treads at point of contact means longer 
wear, longer service, longer satisfaction— money¬ 
saving, of course, and the price per tire is less to 
you than any other of like value. Insure “Safety 
First’ ’ for her and the children by using Goodrich 
Tires wtththe tread that makes the brake effective. 
Don’t pay more than the prices named here for the accepted standard non-skid and smooth-tread tires: 
Size 
Smooth Tread 
Prices 
Safety Tread 
Prices 
Size 
Smooth Tread 
Prices 
Safety Tread 
Prices 
30 x 3 
30 x 334 
32 x 3 34 
33 x 4 
34 x 4 
$11.70 
15.75 
16.75 
23.55 
24.35 
$12.65 
17.00 
18.10 
25.25 
26.05 
34 x 4 % 
35 x 4 34 
36 x 4 
37 x 5 
38 x 534 
$33.00 
34.00 
35.00 
41.95 
54.00 
$35.00 
36.05 
37.10 
44.45 
57.30 
Dealers almost everywhere have Goodrich Tires or can get them for you from one of our branches or depots. 
Factories: 
Akron, Ohio 
The B. F. Goodrich Company 
There is nothing in Goodrich Advertising that isn’t in Goodrich Goods 
Branches in All 
Principal Cities 
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