AORICl'LTURAL APPnoPRIATlOX IIIU., 1 4£9 



fruits tiixl V('«;rtal»l«'s. iliiirv ami poultry pnnln' • ••' ' • ' ' 'tf| 



>rc<ls. Tlu* division of the fiiiul, as shown I ,i\ 



with that of tho provions y»»ar. in fart, this w«»rk in ffom^; nionjf 

 st(MnliIy «)n the sntur ^^rnrrnl phin with the cvxrrption that in thi" InHt 

 \ct\r there was a sniall increase ;;iven ajuJ a eorrespon«!'"" •■vpan«*ion 

 In the collection an<l (list rihtit ion end of the ne\s^ ••. The 



present statement, theroforo. eoneonis pnrtiefthirlv the wny in which 

 this fnnd is \isih\. what this service 18, what cluin;;o.H have taken 

 phjce. and the results ohtained. 



In the first place, this market news service is the collecli<»n and 

 • lissemination of news concerning; prices, movements of pnuhicts to 

 the njarkets, marki't conditions, and other inea>Mres of <;o«id iudjj- 

 Mient on market in<; to Ix* transferred particularly to tlie proifucer, 

 also to serve the trade, and also inform that |)art <if the trade which 

 is close to the consumer. The or;;anization involves, first, a means of 

 ciillectin<; the information and keeping; in tou<h with the markets. 



The hi^^cst item of expense, aside from that of its tiM-hrncal 

 personnel, is the matter of communication, which is maintained by 

 means of a lease*! wire service. This leased wire servi<'e is the oul- 

 Lfrowth of tlu> experience of th«^ Bureau of Markets over five years, 

 het^inniiif;. first, with rommercial teh'^^rams. later devt-lopinj; a siM-ciul 

 arrantjement with the teiej^raph companies to lease a wire at half the 

 cost «)f commercial rates and to utilize this wire to the maxinmm 

 unih>r the suj>ervision of our own staff. This wire at the present time 

 connects the piincijuil agricultural markets, hei^inniiiLT with Boston 

 on the east, New York. Trenton. Philadelphia, a connection to 

 Lancaster and Harrisl)ur<;, Baltimore. Washington, Bittsl)urj;h, 

 Columhus. Cincinnati. ('hica»;o. and Madison ami Fond <lu Lac, 

 Wis., Minneapolis and St. Paul in the Northwest. Then there is 

 a st)uthern and "western branch connecting St. Louis. defTerson City, 

 Kansas City. St. Joseph. Mo.: Omaha and Lincoln. Nehr. Since 

 .September I. an extension of the leased wire conne<tion has 

 been made to Fort Worth. Tex., and on to Austin. There is no 

 leased wire .service to any other points than those I have named; 

 there is no connection to tlie Southeastern States or farther wi'>t than 

 Lincoln. Nebr. You may recall that during the war, at the maxi- 

 mum ex{)ansion of this service under the emergency funds, a complet* 

 national system was laid out. 



Mr. Andkrson. Wliere <lid it go in ihe .Soulheasi i 



Mr. M.vHyiis. Here is a map showing the maximum development 

 on December .'iO. 11)1 S. At that time there was a branch which 

 went from Washington to Atlanta, a branch to dacksonville and 

 Orlando, Fla.. an<»ther branch t(» Birmingham and Memphis, the 

 main line passing on to New Orleans and thence to ll«uis(on. the 

 connection between Kansas City and into Texius coming to Fort 

 Worth only and not going on to Austin. Then on the western 

 circuit the leased wire went west from Kansas City to Denver, to 

 Salt Lake City, to San Francisco, .south t<) I^os Angeles. tou«-hing 

 at F>esno tvnd Turlock in California, with a branch to Sacramento; 

 then in the northern loop, to I\>rtland. S|)okane. Butte. Idaho 

 Falls. Greeley. Colo., and hitching in with the other cinuit. 



Mr. AxDKUso.N. But that service was maintaineil for only u rela- 

 tively short time ? 



