The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-22
FARM PRODUCTS
GREATEST CIR 4 / EVER.
How to Transport Then, to Mar,
ket Now a Puzzling
Question.
TRAFFIC MANAGERS WORRIED
Appeals for Cars Are Coming
From Livery Side-Grain
Harvest.
TRAFFIC MANAGERS WORRIED

Special to The TImes -Dispatch)

RI Il I r. Y
Especial to- The Times -Dispatch)
NEW YORK, oct. 2l,-The governments
Agricultural Bureau has announced that
tho harvest of the farm products this fall
VIII be the largest in the history OF tho
country and that the wheat and corn
crops are phenomenal, both as regards
quantity and quality.ff This Is news that
should I'LL the heart OF every American
with gratitude to a beneflcient Provi-
dence but there are some men who do
not feel SO thankful for natures bounti-
full outpouring OF her gifts. They arc
the trnffic-managers. of the great rail-
roads that will be called upon to move
this tremendous crop from the growing
centres to the Eastern markets and ex-
port points. s$5
10 the average person tho statement
that the corn crop or the United States
will surpass that Of last yenr by nearly
Will mean that there will be more fodd der
for stock and that cereal foods VII! be
more plentiful and perhaps cheaper; ;, that
some Al corn, Which she wants very
badly, II all reports are true The state
ment that there will be 1Sl 900 OoO bushels
ers aud more flour to send abroad.
a Knotty Question.
But to the traffic manager these state
a aesR stating ysrX wes f0G Soand 0s rattle
the heaviest In the history OF American
rairoadng. lie is aware that this !. cen p:
EEe ey9 IS aSd he
roads have ever experienced, ana tnat
In trying to care for the tonnage on
their lines indlyidua ro s,aek are eaye
their rails.
Every mail bringsshim letters from
al, h ~ 10 81
to move hundreds OF thousands OF BUSH
els OF wheat, barley. oats or corn. Each
e1as h Ssnts sshtsa # rs doe e
got them. 10 make matters worse for
the traffic. men, the. barley crop, which
is unusually good this year r,,o began gna
dsmand for thas grain in husope. ana
ha S S een
I to EgeE commercial prod ucts out OF the
way in time for the fall grain rush have
been demanded by barley shippers: IN
famine In the grain trade during the
remained ROT October.
Probably the road which has u the most S
difficult traffic problem to solve is tho
New York Central and Hudson River
care Of the grain brought from 1oN western m
.
is loaded into cars from the holds OF
the big whsleback steamers or ls tenn
onsed nths great tbat ele etY rsate
that already there are. more than six
million bushels stored there, and 1notma
car yet available toTmoye It. east.
Immense Yield.
Government reports from Minnesota
and the that yea from ana tn nese
vii iu'i be- suffcient to fiji $4,000 cars How
ever, astounding these fIguses may be.
@ by the ehsago
pert regarding the corn crop.
Tho governments statement that the
sSFs e5SSP S % eneesa snes Ct
yield indicated Will boS 2, 40; 7ol,7oO bushels
Expressed in dollars and cents It may
be said that to move Inc crop fo o. c %et
to New York, for export. on freight
basis Of two cents a bushel on the lakes.
five cents rail and one and New Yars
the transportatio compaies would receive
for the service 1857 ,237, 1925
If the farmers received the ValCe z OF
DIV their wheat and corn at the rate
( of eighty cents bushel for wheat and
5forty-nine cents for corn. they would !
have s., s735lS $500 to deposit IN bank.
The only remedy for annual car fam
ines Us for the railroads TO provide cars
enough for maximum, business, and this
is something they will never 40, because
I "a L
side travks on every road would be filled
with idle cars.
tits learned that the PENNSYLVANIA sys-
TEN alone has pending e or fao Tor
Erie has recently decided to build 1000
steel gondoEa cars and an s 1co box * f ias
tern and the Burlington are In the,marketIl
for 1,oo' and 1000 box vars respectively
The great outlay which the Pcnnsyl-
vana will make for new cars Is bell Yed
by railroad men 10 be due to the desire
ofhthc company to ut itself from fif .t,
of the grain traffic to place nearer
the head
Grain-Carrying Roads.
The five great grain carrying roads In
in this line, the New York Central -
said to head! the list; Next comes the
Delaware, Lackawanpa and Western "a
good fourth, The Pennsylyania is last
on the LIST
have .o Just a about Exhausted p thre railroad
r rasrTs W" Car r racers are using ali tier
skill to find box cars that have strayed
or ar Idle In order that they may PC
ii is n Undertaking OF greater magn-
tudc than the layman has any ldeh q 20
|, 81. Paul and Duluth and dozen more
centres OF the grain shippinga Industry
will clamOr for twice. AZ many rs ~
e1 Of pe eourss lie delay in handling the
grain crop win mean a loss OF many
| fortunes 10 those who's SUCCESS OF fall
urc In wheat or corn deals depends upon
| the rapidly or iardlnfss o. delivery.
| ~rnErArT