THE YOUNG FARMER 



railroad rate between Chicago and New 

 York on grain is higher while the naviga- 

 tion of the Great Lakes is suspended. As an 

 illustration of the cheapness of transporta- 

 tion by water, it is stated that sometimes it 

 is cheaper to ship wheat from Chicago to 

 Buffalo by boat than to store it in a grain 

 elevator for an equal period of time. 



Products may sometimes be sent by bag- 

 gage to greater advantage than by express, 

 special arrangements for which are gener- 

 ally required. 



FACILITIES FOR FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION 



American railway facilities are, perhaps, 

 unrivaled among the nations of the world, 

 but the United States is still behind other 

 nations in the matter of means of local 

 transportation, in which good roads is only 

 a part of the problem. In France, the so- 

 called messagers are a common feature of 

 local traffic. Thus in the Department of 

 Touraine there are 246 towns each having 

 from one to four messagers, who with their 

 great two-wheel carts, each with single draft 

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