The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-12-13
MARKETING OF
FARM PRODUCTS
HIGHWAY TRANSPORT COMMIT.
SEE HOLDING SERIES OF IN
TER-ALLlED CONFERENCES
ON VITAL SUBJECTS.

The statement made by Herbert
Hoover before a conference of Re
gionaI Chairmen of the Highways
Transport Committee, that so per
cent of the perishable food products
raised in this country go to waste be-
cause of a lack of adequate market
ing and transport facilities, has cen
tered the attention of not only this
Government but also of the Allied
powers upon the methods to be used
in marketing American farm prod
ucts.
A series of inter-allied confer
ences are being held under the aus
pieces of Highway Transport Commit
tee of the Council of National De
Tense to consider the question.
The work of the Highways Trans
port Committee, which has pioneered
in efforts along these lines, has
brought to light numbers of in
stances of the economic value of the
Rural Express Service.
These illustrations emphasize the
fact that, the Rural Express makes
available for use waste foods that are
now produced, but are not now mar
keted.
Second, that it relieves labor where
the labor conditions are the most
acute.
Third, that the service undoubted-
" stimulates increased production.
A rural motor express operator in
Colorado reports to the Highways
Transport Committee that he was
able with three men to make it possi-
Bile for fifty farmers on one we'll
known highway TO give all of their
time to their agricultural pursuits at
a period when such attention was
most vital.
Farmers who formerly sent team
or possibly a double teamt-to mar
ket. necessitating their absence from
one to two days, now keep these
same teams on the farm by utilizing
the Rural Motor Truck Service, which
stops at the front gate and transfers
marketable stuff from the farm wag-
on to the motor truck.
One such trucks operating not far
from the national capital was able IN
one days time not only to combine
the loads of five farmers but to trans
port these loads at a speed practical
ly eight times as great as the farm
ers would have been capable of by
team.
Another Rural Motor Express ope-
rator reports to the Highways Trans
port Committee that he has been aDle
on his own farm within the present
year to raise 314 barrels of corn, rep
resenting 1870 bushels, on fourteen
acres of ground which he had here
tofore used as pasture for horses.
This striking economy was the direct
result, the farmer points out, Oh
being able to dispose of horses for
merly necessary to the transportation
of farm products to market and avail
himself of the Rural Express Service.
During the first ten months OF the
present year shipments of cattle,
hogs and sheep delivered from west
ern Iowa at the Omaha Market
through the medium of Rural Motor
Truck transportation represented
total of 1S,498 cattle, 1888 hogs, ana
37,130 sheep.
Not only were cattle hogs anu
sheep thus delivered to the Omaha
market in much better physical shape
than would otherwise have been the
case as a result of being transported
by motor truck, but at the same time
the rail carriers-then greatly over
taxed by wartime demands-were re-
ieved of the strain of this business.
Chairman Edward N. Hurley OF the
u S. Shipping Board recently called
upon the Highways Transport Com
mittee for assistance in moving foou
stuffs to overseas shipping points III
order that the duty of this county
to care not only for it's soldiers III
France, but for the peoples OF the ae-
vastated nations of Europe might DC
the more effectively carried out
This call of Chairman Hurley, IS OF
course, of vital interest to those rep
resentatives. of allied nations who arc
participating in the inter-ailled coh-
ference.
Twelve alien soldiers from camp
Pike we're made United States GU
zens in Second Division Circuit Court