Show MARKETING POTATO CHOPS CROPS in line alth the classie adae tit i the 0 iter shippers citie by Pits dent ident halley ila iley ot of I 1 ale university in hia his book on tr transportation la is the case of be aroostook Aroos took potato tr brout b president tuttle ot of tho the hoston and maine malue id beaute the committee on interstate commerce nothing could boiler better ahoi how hoil a ral ralland roid works for the Int inderst Inter erst tat ot of the tile localities local thick it serve serves A main ot of tho the farmers tarr nera of th aroostook Aroos took realon rf felon Is tilt the lobato t crop aggregating annual tight to ten million bushton which find it mar inar ket lar larel 03 in boston and the tile chii kl settled regions ot of ne 1 fug land the competition of cheap water ater transportation from maine to all points along the new Ili angland gland coast kepa keps railroad freight rit r rito it s on oil these pota toes oes always at a vre vo I ion iou ou level Ilo potatoes tates are also a considerable out put rut ot of the truck tarnis farms of in their normal market being obtained in and through detroit and aai chicago and other comman ties of that region not many ninny yeara eara ago favoring sun and rains rallis brou brought glit a ti icid of potatoes pot atop from the tile fields at normal rate rates and there would hae have been a glut of the custom ary markets and the potatoes mould have rotted on the farina arros to help the potato grov lers the railroads from michigan made low rates on potatoes to every reachable market marke even carrying carrl ng them in large t quantities to a I 1 laco 1 so remote as 13 0 on the adoo growers grof hal hat to reduce the price on their potatoes and even then could not dispose of them unless the doston boston and maine railroad Hall road reduced its already lov rate which it did by mean means of these low rates making possible low prices the potato crops of both Alle michigan bigan and maine were finally marketed everybody Lvery body eats potatoes and that acar ear everybody bad hall all the potatoes he wanted while the michigan railroads made rates that moult have been ruinous to the railroads hal hat the teiei been licen applied to the tile movement of all potatoes at all times to all places they helped their patrons to find markets then the boston and ana maine Rall roid id suffered a decrease in its revenue from potatoes but it enabled tho the Aroos aroostook took farmers to market heir their crop and thereby to obtain roone mone it which aich they spent for the varied sup supplies which the railroads brought to them if the fie mal ng of rates m were ere inject 0 o eject to governmental adJust mer t such radic radical il and prompt could never have been taken because it la Is well ell e that it a rato rate bo be once reduced by a railroad coal comiano any it cannot be I 1 le stored through the red tape of governmental procedure it the michigan railroads and the boston and maine railroad had hid been to governmental ural tation they would have felt obliged to keep up their rates as do the railroads of france and 1 I angland and aerman germaey y under governmental limitation and let the potatoes rot F ann |