Show Livestock IJ 4 hl JAH A It SW U aLl on Los Angeles December One 26 26 One of the great tans continental railroads some years ago wis worried because of the seasonal nature of its freIght traffic In this instance the road rold was as called upon to curry in n en enor enormous or tonnage of wheat heat during about two ho or three months in the lute summer ind fall During DurmS the bal balance balance balance ance of the year tonnage wis w corn com light yet iet et in order to give adequate service during the heavy vy grain ram marketing season it was necess necessary ess essary ry that the big railroad Invest In millions of dollars worth orth of to 10 freight cars and other expensive equipment Moreover It Was necessary to employ i t large force tobe of men inen most of whom had to be on the company's pay payrolls rolls throughout the year ear in ii ord order r to have ha skilled men to handle trams trains dUl dining mg the perk peik movements Here was i 1 on which means heavy forthe expense ill all the year 5 ear car around for the rail company yet only about nm t days when there was sufficient volume of pay pa expenses Certainly it was as not possible to tae 1 the produce producers producer of that territory sufficiently to pa the burden bUlden yet iet et the expenses had hail to be earned out of freIght revenues revenue The far sighted head beai of the rail MIl MIlrod ro d coald see sec but one way out and that was Sias to de develop clop freight traffic for his road ro which would be i n con constant constant stant tInt feeder for his S system stem this the year around Incidentally thereas there was as another I maJor problem to be faced That dealt with the prosperity of the I farmers along the line If yields were heavy end ind market prices favor favorably I ably the farmers were prosperous But if there happened to be a short I wheat whICh crop crop which happened more often than a bumper or crop crop or if the I wheat market happened not be so which favorable soI I which also was a SItus t on which h often came about thA about th farm farmers I f fera ers era were only not prosperous YM ui they went broke which meant the population was as constantly sh it mg ing and there were each year ear man many Idle farms In looking about for foi a means c cr conditions the head heads of the tie decided that ca I ian on n of agriculture with live stock pro pro- pro production as the bis s s I would not only er an their problems as to greater tonn tonnage ge but would also serve to tomal tomal tomal mal e a the producers more prosperous and aid in building up the population and wealth of the served by bythe the r railroad A campaign to place live stock on every ery farm was wis instituted The railroad brought pure bred bulls pure bythe boars and ind pure bred rams by the wholesale and md either cally gave them to the worthwhile farmers and ranchers else or sold them on very easy terms B Banker were en to loan money on 6 stock Farmers were encouraged to cut down wheat t acreage and m- m crease Clease increase m acreage of forage and gram crops which could be fed to lIve stock livestock I The as was soh solved ed in m a 1 few short ears until that particular sec bon tion section of the country became me prosper prosper- prosperous I ous bunk deposits deposit pyramided and andI I the railroad was WiS hauling live stock k and farm produs s over ower raIls every month in the year With W ith the addItIOn of live stock came greater soil soll f fertility so that e even en n witha with a 3 per s wheat the YIelds per acre acie were ere h gher and with the program of live Ina In e stock and diversification cation well under way the raIlroad discovered ered that it hadnot had bad not lost ts is great volume of wheat tonnage but that the volume actually had shown nn an increase and this thus condition has hal ruled year after year since 1912 when hen the program was first maw Some of our western railways are up unet ap-unet practically the th n problem today that control confront d thIS th s IS railway e eighteen years 1 0 n nd Iad where we do not hive have diver diver- f we atlo we still have the s 8 isle crop to deal d WIth In most moet cases what n f led It'd ledis ledis is 18 diversification on the in hv by dual farm farll or ranch I bel ber c p ee that if we would all alI get behind s 1 program of some live stock on eVIr evert farm and ranch we would e hive a amore amore amore more prosperous agriculture and he present fruit vegetable VI getable an and gram grain crops would increase in v of and Anel e in quality |