New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-18
STATE FOOD COMMITTEE PLANS
TO PREVENT POSSIBLE LOS
SEES THIS YEAR.
RAILROADS PROMISE TO HELP
IN SPEEDING SHIPMENTS
OF. FooDsTUFF.

may be handled With the least possible
delay during the summer and fall. Speed
and efficiency, the committee says, are
imperative in order that there ma be
no loss to either producer or consumer.
To get speed and efficiency the markets
division is making statewide appeal.
1t asks everybody to help.
To make the traffic flow smoothly and
rapidly thru the regular channels, how
ever, is going to be increasingly difficult
as the season advances. The production
of such crops as potatoes and rutabagas
in much larger quantities than usual
will lead many farmers with limited or
no storage facilities to attempt to market
their crops as soon as harvested, The
movement Of military supplies will begin
In November, if not in October. Large
!, shipments of farm machinery will demand
their share of a short supply of cars.
The transportation of the winters fuel
supplies will present added difficulties.
1t is to meet this complicated situation
that the markets division of the state
food committee is strenuously at work.
To Remedy Freight Congestion.
The first move of the division has been
the sending of a letter to all of the county
directors of the Commission of Public
M,sty. This letter says that much of
Mreight congestion is caused by the
- Zig Of cars, by the shipment
.s ldS Sack again Of ag ricuitural pro-
tlE should remain within the
il counties, and by delays in load
Ind reloading. The county directors,
cefore, are urged to see to it that
h county provides for it's own needs
ore shipping out any food supplies,
y at cars are always fully loaded, and
Mat delays in loading and reloading are
lsduced to minimum.
The county directors are further urged
10 encourage the purchase of Individual
supplies of fuel in order that dealers
fuel sheds may be emptied and restocked,
to emphasize the need of providing
storage pits or cellars on the farms, and
warehouses in towns, for perishable
products, and to call the attention of
farmers to the desirability of letting their
implement dealers know what farm
machinery they will need within the next
: year, in order that preferred orders for
such machinery may be entered with
manufacturers.
Railroads Promise Help.
The railroads have shown complete
readiness to cooperate in the handling
of farm supplies. A letter from Thomas
Yapp, assistant secretary of the Mime
sofa Railroad and Warehouse commits
sion, showing the attitude of the rail-
roads, follows: -
eReplying to your letter of June FL
and your former communications with
reference to the prompt movement of
agricultural implements.
1--WE have now received assurance
from the presidents of every railroad
operating in this state that all the
agricultural implements and articles in
common use on the farm have been
declared to be preference freight, and
will be handled with the greatest prompt
ness when offered for shipment. If at
any time you hear of any delay in ship
ments of these commodities, we would
be glad if you would advise us, as we
would like to follow out any such cases."
This preference freight agreement will
be brought to the attention of the leading
shippers in every county, of county
agents of farmers club secretaries, and
Iother persons who may be directly
interested.
Crop Yields to Be Reported.
The county directors, again, are being
asked to fill out and return to w. W.
Cumberland. manager of the food COM
mittee's markets information service,
University Farm, St. Paul, blanks
showing the probable yields of potatoes,
BEANS rutabagas, turnips, onions,
Exbbage, sugar beets, and other, vege
Coz Is, and apples, in territories tributary
81 the various market centers; also the
of these different crops shipped
in ordinary years, and the probable
percentage of increase this year. This