The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-04

stuff was sought for by the high
priced hotels and restaurants, but
only hose who paid big money could
afford what was then luxury. Now
the produce from the extreme OF the
Florida peninsula is practically a ne
cessity in the North and Canada, Tor
the increasing population is pressing
close on the food supplies that are
available.
Moving Perishable Stuff.
The Coast Lin has created an
available service to make the mar
keting of Southern stuff possible, ana
at a price hat people can pay and
live. An express train freight serV-
ice has shortened the schedule time
from all points TO all markets. Ihat
is an essential point, for most OF the
stufAhe Coast Line carries Is OF q
perisHable character, and cannot stay
long on the road. Everything is
moved on a definite schedule. Trains
are run to reach markets at a time
when the market is ready to receive
and handle the goods. The aim IS TO
put New York stuff into New York
markets just a little before day tina
it may get to the distributor and be
on the table for inner Of the day 1t
reaches the city. With hat end in
view trains cave the shipping points
at a time that will put them in mar
ket right. Their schedules are made
as fast as railroad operation and
safety can justify, and the products
are put into market in a condition
that was impossible when this work
| was begun twenty-five years ago.
The use Of ice and refrigeration has
become a science with the railroads..
| Almost anything can be transported
now around the globe with the facili-
ties for cold storage that are in use.
North Carolina strawberries can be
| sent to New York, placed in the re-
frigerator of an ocean liner, carried
across the sea, and be in shape to
serve for dinner on the last day OF
the voyage back to New York. They
"a be kept much longer and carried
farther, but that is far enough.
The census shows that the United
States in this year of grace has a
population Of nearly W. millions a
year now. 1t also shows hat the
to the northeast can not provide
themselves with food for a certain
part of the year except at sue cost
and inconvenience that it is better to
turn to a more favorable section Of
the country, which is the coastal plain
from Norfolk to the Florida PENN
sula. In that coastal region fruit and
vegetables are growing all the year
round, n from that section food
goes daily to those who have come to
depend on this supply.
Feeding b POpulOus North.
The change in food dependence in
the last quarter Of a century has
been phenomenal. In that time has
grown up the use Of refrigeration,
and the modern system of distribution
that makes it possible for the South
to feed the North. In that time the
Coast Linz has developed, and in tina
time the system Of carrying food has
developed. Today 0 expect to find
in every northern town and village
food supplies from every State along
the Atlantic South to Key West. You
5 expect to see every household pro.
vide with fruit and garden stuff from
5 the whole length of the Coast Lin
/ The railroad realizes a is bushes.
is to help feed the swiftly growine
planned away into the future, no
only to carry that food to the North
but to create the food that will b,
y carried.
r The men who manage the Atlanti,
\ Coast Line note the Increasing de
n mand for supplies in the North. The,
know that the quantity which salts
ies this yea Will, not satisfy mex
year. More farms must be raisin,
cabbage, more must be producing let
tuce and beans and Strawberries
Il Everything must increase in the sam
= pIOpOItlOH the population increases
o More farms must be made, more pee
a pie be put to work, more communi
ties built Up, more engines and car
q provided, and they must be ready t
h go TO work as their product is de
manded. 1t is a far look into tn
It future the railroad must take, an
don't you believe for a minute bu
: what the roads are doing their shar,
The Coast Line is planning for ne,
n year, and the years far beyond. It
-, building Duh track to kee
y hunger out Of New York.
-, New York is the center of the va.
~ aggregate Of population Of the Nortl
y not the geographical center, but tf
- point from which all influences rad
y ate. 1t is the most populous spot O
the continent, and the financial ar
~ immediate industrial capital Of
= large additional number beyond VIII;
lives in its borders. 1t is fortuna
| for Now No~ly I'D AT@- -,