The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1913-01-04
PENNSYLVANIA R.
R. AGRICULTURAL
ACTIVITIES

crates 25,236.5 miles of track running
through thirteen States and the District
OF Columbia. in which live more than
one-half of the population of the United
States.
The thirteen States upon which the
pennsylvania Railroad System relies for
the greater part of its freight and pas
senger traffic are Delaware, Illinois, Ind
lana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan,
Missouri, New Jersey, New York. Ohio,
pennsylvania, Virginia and West Vir-
ginia.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has set out
to build UP the industries of these thir-
teen States, to attract new Industries to
them, to assist farmers already there,
and to bring to these States more farm
err
These are some of the reasons why,
fve or six years ago, this Company I'M
dertook an active campaign in the inter-
est OF the agricultural communities along
its lines, and these are some of the rea-
sons why this company is represented at
the American Land and Irrigation Ex-
position.
More farmers, better farmers, more
industries, and better industries are re-
presented in the goal for which the
Pennsylvania Railroad System is striv-
ing.
The value of staple crops grown in the
United States in 1911-such as corn, hay,
wheat, barley, oats, potatoes, tobacco,
etc-was more than $500, 000,00 In
Pennsylvania alone the value of staple
crops for the year was over $3.50, 200, 900,
and there were some 224,00 farmers who
shared in this production. 1t has been
estimated by the Chief Agronomist of
the State College of Agriculture of Penn
sylvan1a that If each OF these 224 900
farmers had increased his yield of corn
one bushel to the acre, the additional
revenue to them from corn grown in the
State would have amounted to 81, 044, 900.
Further than that, $780,000 would have
rolled into the pockets of these farm
ers If they had selected and tested their
seed corn carefully and thus added ten
kernels to each ear of corn grown by
them
1t is this sort of development for
which the Pennsylvania Railroad is
working. Just as it has been adding
second, third and fourth tracks to its
line, so it is seeking the same inten-
wv uN'SiOphi'hl Vi llc dSi al ana
industrial districts. The Railroad real
lies that with the expansion limited, as
1t is today, by reason of the network
OF lines that cover the country, there
must be an internal unfolding of re-
sources.
The activities of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company in the development of
the agricultural districts, traversed by
its lines, have, within the last year,
been further expanded by the creation
of bureau to supervise and handle its
fruit traffic. The office is in charge of
a milk agent, with an adequate force,
whose function is the development and
couragement of new fields for the pro-
duction of milk The Company is put
ting the dealers in large centers of con-
sumption / ntouch with dairymen in the
producing regions adjacent to the lines
of the Pennsylvania system, and then
organizing service to handle promptly
and efficiently this highly perishable
food commodity
The lines of the Pennsylvania not only
pass through some of the most produc-
i've dairy sections, but it serves with
dts own rails all the large and import
ant cities of the East, such as New York,
Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Baltimore.
Washington Buffalo, Harrisburg, Pitts
burgh, and numerous other centers OF
wealth and industrial activity whose
growing populations annually require
increasing supplies of fooistuffs, and
necessarily the demand for good pure
milk increases with the growth of these
communit es.
Not so long ago many of these popul-
Gus towns received the bulk of their
milk supply from nearby dairies the
milk being drawn by teams and peddled
direct from the wagons. With growth
the demand eceedd the supply from su-
burban farms Ito such an extent that TO-
day the quantity of milk teamed into the
cities is but an ininitesimal portion of
the daily requirements. The milk COM
panies who have built up an enormous
traffic in dispensing milk to homes in
the large cities depend entirely on the
organized milk service of the great
trunk lines, whose trains have gradually
extended their runs until they now reach
out to dairies over four hundred miles
from New York City
The great problem of today in a large
city is to keep pace with the growth in