| Show MARKETING POTATO CROPS CHOPS in line lid with nith the LI clinic thic th ic ca la can n 01 01 lit the e died by Pie I 1 hadl or of I 1 alp rity lit in his boo book k oil fallt 0 id tat ion Is tup the case of at ai potato rora bi tuttle of tho the boston I 1 and I 1 I 1 lit maine N railroad the ESE dinati nat on interstate corn com merce nothing could bett r how how a railroad voicy aoi hs for tilt interest of the localities it acnes A main dpn dence of tile the farmers of I 1 the he Aico io ilon Is IB the potato ere aroi aggravating annually eight to ten million bushels which find a mar let ket largely in boston and the adjacent thickly settled eglons of new eng land the competition of cheap water transportation ion from maine to all points along the new england coast keeps i railroad freight lates on these pota toes loes always at a very low leel potatoes are also a consides consi dei ab le out put ot of the truck farms of michigan their normal market being obtained in and through detroit mild and chicago and other communities of that region not many bears ears ago favoring sun and rains brought a tremendous yield of potatoes from the michigan fields at normal rates and prices there would have been a glut 0 of the customary markets and the potatoes aou would id have rotted on the farms to help the potato growers the railroads from michigan made low rates on cin potatoes to every reachable m maratt a rat even car carrying ring them in large quantities to a place bo remote as bog boa ton the growers had to reduce the trice on their potatoes and even then could not dispose of them unless the boston and maine railroad reduced its already low rate which it did by means of these low lates late making possible low gilces pi ices the potato chops of both michigan and maine were finally marketed everybody Ivery body eats potatoes and that year every body had bad all the potatoes he be wanted while the michigan railroads made rates rafts that would hane hae ben bem ruinous to tile the railroads had they been applied to the movement of all potatoes at all times to all places helped their patrons to find markets then the boston and maine railroad lUll road suffered a decrease lit in it its revenue from potatoes but it benall enabled led the to market their crop and thereby to obtain money which the spent for the varied supplies which the railroads brought to them it if the making of rates were subject to governmental adjustment such radical and prompt action could never haie hae been taken because it 11 is well established that if ft a rate be once reduced by a railroad company it cannot be restored through till ough the red tape of governmental procedure if the michigan railroads and tile the boston and maine railroad had been subjected to governa antal liml tation they would havo have felt obliged to keep up lip their rates as do the railroads of france and england and germany under governmental limitation and let the potatoes rot E r han |
