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Show fore the rush of spring work, and in many cases "on the snow, before the roads break up In the spring. In view of the serious shortage of food products prod-ucts and the necessity for large crops during the coming season, every effort is being made by farmers to secure large yields and the correspondingly large profits which come from high prices, and the demand for fertilizers this spring is expected to be larger than ever before. The manufacturers, the railroads, the dealers and the farmers farm-ers are expected to co-operate In the "Do Your Spring Shopping" campaign. FARMERS URGED TO SHOP EARLY Nation-Wide Campaign to Promote Pro-mote Earlier Buying of Supplies. CAR SHORTAGE THE REASON Congested Condition of Railroads Urged a Reason Why Farmers Should Purchase Supplies in Time for Spring Planting. New York. A nation-wide campaign to promote earlier buying and shipping ship-ping of fertilizers, seeds, lime, farm machinery and other supplies and materials ma-terials for spring use has been started by the National Fertilizer association here, in order that the goods may be movea ana aeuverea to tne farmers in time for use this spring. On account of the congested condition and lack of cars on the railroads, Indications are that unless earlier shipments than usual are made the supplies will not be delivered In time for use. Without the necessary supplies, serious damage would be caused by next year's crops. To Extend Shipping Season. By calling attention to the serious car shortage, It Is hoped that the normal nor-mal shipping season of six or eight weeks may be extended over three months, enabling the railroads to move the plantfood, seeds, lime and other supplies before the spring planting season sea-son opens. Shipping conditions have been growing grow-ing worse Instead of better, according to the announcement made by President Presi-dent Horace Bowker of the National Fertilizer association. The car shortage short-age on September 1 was 19,000 freight cars, he said. On October 1, the shortage short-age had Increased to 60,000 cars, on November 1 to 108,000 cars and on December De-cember 1 to approximately 150,000 cars. The usual practice of farmers has been to delay ordering their spring supplies for fertilizer until just before the season opened, thus crowding 90 per cent of the shipments of fertilizer for spring crops Into a period of from six weeks to two months. Manufacturers declare that It will be Impossible for the railroads to move the 4,600,000 tons normally used each spring, unless supplies are purchased earlier than ever before. Some of the Advantages. Other advantages of early ordering and shipping are that farmers are able to haul the supplies to their farms be- |