42 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



If Mr. Delano will just recall our nice little talk and visit in 

 Chicago not long ago, he will remember the committee there 

 went over the grounds of delayed transportation, and it seems 

 to me that is one of the vital points to be made at this meeting 

 and one of the things these general managers of the different 

 roads can take up. Not many years ago the time limit for the 

 transportation of live stock from points, central and western 

 Iowa, were from three to six hours shorter than at the present 

 time. I think Mr. Delano will remember we showed conclusively 

 that that was a detriment to the average shipper of Iowa of not 

 less than three dollars an hour for that delay. Today you ride 

 on a stock train over Iowa, and the train will occupy ten hours 

 across the state ; the train men complaining because they are 

 not allowed to make the run, often times waiting at stations. 

 Now, if Mr. Delano and the other managers of roads will take 

 that up separately, and is there any reason why it can not be 

 done or has not been done, Mr. Delano. 



A Member: I was twenty -four hours riding across the state 

 of Iowa- Saturday, from 7 o'clock Saturday night, starting from 

 Sac county, and arriving at Clinton at 7 o'clock Sunday night, 

 and getting to Chicago at 2 o'clock. Before the Chicago & 

 North- Western had a double track, they would make eighteen or 

 twenty miles an hour. Now they call on us to load at 7 o'clock 

 in the evening, and sometimes at four, and give us a thirty- six 

 hour run, making a shrinkage on every head of fifty pounds; 

 we are giving from fifty to sixty pounds of beef in these long 

 runs ; the statistics show that we are losing that. They said they 

 were surprised; they didn't know it was quite so bad. 



Mr. Delano : Gentlemen, I wish some of you had to manage 

 a railroad. The fact of the matter is, if you ever managed a 

 railroad so that you could keep all passenger and freight trains 

 on time and make the time satisfactory to all your patrons, you 

 could congratulate yourselves. I can assure you, Mr. Ames, of 

 this, that there is no cause of delayed movement that is not 

 investigated, and we think we are making improvement in that 

 direction all the time. 



Mr. Nuttwent into considerable detail in this matter, and I 

 thought was quite convincing. It is true, Mr. Wallace referred to 

 the fact that the rate on hogs has not been reduced over a cer- 

 tain territory for a number of years. As I say, there is a very 

 small margin in handling live stock. 



