Automobile Operation Consumes Greater Part of Corn Crop

The Carroll Herald
29 August 1928

Walter Williams, of Audubon county, has been doing some figuring. He says that Audubon county produces, on an average, 2,500,000 bushels of corn. Taking a value of ninety cents a bushel the total value of the corn would be $2,500,000. There are owned in the county about 3,600 passenger cars. Authorities at Iowa State college claim that the average cost of owning and operating an automobile is $661. Other estimates are a little lower. The figure $500 a year is about as low as is ever set down by those who make a study of the matter. Taking then, for the sake of comparison, this latter figure the cost of owning and operating the passenger automobiles exclusive of trucks, is $1,850,000 which is not so far from the total value of the corn crop.