The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-11-21
Boston & Maine to Furnish
Springfield Car Be-
= ginning Monday
AFFECTS ABOUT
SEVENTY FARMERS
a. m, Going to Bellows Falls-Then
Will Start South, Reaching Spring
field at 315.

utlU dC DO.
Through a concession made yester-
day afternoon by the Boston G. Maine
Railroad Co. shipments of milk from
this section to Springfield, Mass, which
have been made by automobile truck
will be made by rail beginning next
Monday morning.
Slightly over 4,500 quarts day are
now being sent by automobile, repre-
senting the product of farmers who a
few months ago withdrew their milk
from the Boston market because of a
more advantageous opening in Spring
| field
Until now the Windham County
Farm Bureau has been unable to get
a milk car, because the minimum re-
quirements of the railroad was 5,l0O
quarts and the ruling of the interstate
commerce commission would not al
low the railroad to accept pay for more
milk than was shipped
The railroad agrees to furnish a car
with the understanding that shipments
will reach the minimum in very short
time. This affects about 20 farmers.
The car will go north from here at
$50 in the morning, taking on milk
until it reaches Bellows Falls, when it
will be sealed and sent to Springfield,
larriying at 3.15 in the afternoon. The
transportation charges viii be about
half the cost by motor truck.
Attorney Frank E. Barber of Brattle-
boro, acting for County Agent w. p
boro, for the Farm Bureau marketing
committee. had consultation with the
Boston Maine officials in Boston last
week, and the decision to put on car
is the result
This does away with the danger of
the milk being held up by reason of
the motor truck being unable to col
lect it when there is deep snow on the
ground.
In connection with the new arrange
ment letter is being sent from the
Farm Bureau office today by the mar
keting committee to producers shipping
field. That portion of the letter re-
lating to the change in transportation
service reads as follows:
Through the efforts of Mr. c. K.
Loomis, who represents us in matters
r pertaining to transportation, Attorney
, Frank Barber of Brattleboro has been
obtained to work for our interests. As
, a result of Lawyer Barber s efforts the
Boston & Maine railroad has consented
to supply our producers with railroad
transportation for our milk, commenc-
! ing upon the morning of Nov. "a AS
the shipment is still below the mini
mum requirements for a car, we should
J all feel that Attorney Barber has rem
= dered Windham county producers a
real service in obtaining for them this
concession.
l THE milk truck viii pick up its las,
I milk upon the afternoon of Sunday
Nov. %. VIII you, therefore, be pre-
pared to load your first rail shipments
upon Monday forenoon, Nov. "a. The
! truck should receive all milk pro
: duced by your dairy previous to moor
2 Sunday, Nov. %. The two milking.
following that date should constitut,
y the first rail shipment and thus obvi
Il ate any diversified shipments whiel
T might tax the facilities at the Phillips
N plant.
1.-THE car will start from Brattlebor,
8 upon the local freight train at s.3
r, Monday morning, Nov. "a, and pro
r seeding thence to Bellows Falls, max
n ing stops at all stations as per the oil,
II schedule of previous seasons. Begin
4 ming with Nov. "a we shall be give1
If daily service with milk car and at
a. tendant.' =