If you had a car and still needed a job in the poor and rural 1950s South, this was the advertisement for you! If you want to be a farm-to-farm salesman, that is.

McNess is still out there, they opened in 1908 and are still in the feed game. Furst-McNess has been selling vitamin and mineral premixes for the U.S. and Canada since about the time this ad was created.

They still have their home offices right there in Freeport, Illinois, population 25,000. Maybe people around that area remember ads like this.

I wonder why my grandfather cut it out of the paper. Maybe he liked the car. Maybe he found the idea of selling on the open road romantic, Maybe it was the entrepreneurial appeal. McNess man.

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