Washington County News | 1926-06-03 | Page 6 | Farm Products Rates Attacked

Farm Products Rates Attacked Washington. Rates on livestock and vegetables were attacked in argu ments Tuesday in the interstate commerce com-merce commission's western freight rate investigation. A. H. Brown of Cleveland said that from points west of Chicago that rates were stifling to growers. He said that if given a relative rel-ative equality of rates with competing markets the Cleveland livestock industry in-dustry would furnish the country with one additional market for the product to the benefit of the consumer. H. C. Lust, representing the Pacific coast vegetable growers and shippers' transportation trans-portation committee, said that under a new scale approved by the commission commis-sion the carriers in California had been given an additional $3,000,000 in revenues, practically all coming from lettuce growers.