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Show SPECIAL SERVICE IS PROMISED BYROADS Result of First Meeting of Farmers Farm-ers and Carriers. Special service In transporting farm supplies has been guaranteed co-operative buying associations In the Eastern stales by 12 big railroads as the re suit of a conference held between representatives rep-resentatives of the roads and the farmers' farm-ers' organizations In Cleveland. Light co-operative associations distributing dis-tributing farm supplies In the East were represented, Including the G. L. F. exchange, Eastern States fanners' exchange, Pennsylvania Federation of Co-opcratlves, Maryland Agricultural corporation, West Virginia Co-operative association and the Farm Bureau federations fed-erations of Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. In-diana. The movement of solid tralnloads of supplies from the Mid-West to the East was promised the producers' associations. as-sociations. This type of service Is now rendered packers and other big shippers ship-pers of perishable products. The railroads rail-roads represented were the New York Central. New Haven & Hartford, Pennsylvania. Penn-sylvania. Erie, Itoston it Albany. Nickel Plate, Peoria Pelt line, Canadian Cana-dian l'aclllc, II. it (., (iriind Trunk, I'.ig Four and II. it M. Ii lamenting on the conference. II. 10. I'.abcock, general manager of the (i. L. I1', exchange, declared: "The meeting brought together for the first lime the carriers and the producers of the East. The allllude of the roads Is one of co-opcrallon. Their action In providing solid Iralnload service will moan lower costs of production In the East, for It will eliminate some of tin uiinu I Isfael ory I ra nspori at Ion condl (Ions of the past, and It will pornil the cooperative unsocial Inns to fn nlsh service of n high order to the members." |