Show progressive farm railroading three hundred railroad officials grain and produce buyers bankers and big farmers and livestock men met in boise idaho july 16 to estimate the states agricultural production for foi the year they went exhaustively into the problem ot of supplying cars tor for every crop at the time the produce is ready tor for marketing the snake river valley pea crop calls for or 1000 cars and other divisions estimated their needs so that all may have a chance to be served that is one refinement of modern railroading the farmers themselves do not know just how much tonnage they will have neither do the railroads but together they can figure it out almost to the ton and both sides be ready tor for the shipping crisis it remains tor for the farmers on one hand and the millers potato dealers and other big buyers of farm products on the other to organize and market farm produce in an orderly manner to take cotton wheat corn and all important food products out of the speculative market and feed them into the market as the railroads plan to feed cars into the harvest hopper according to the daily needs is the road to farm and national prosperity |