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tion on the part of transportation companies and 

 middlemen. These are the most universal direct 

 complaints that have been presented to the 

 Commission. If the statements can be trusted, 

 the business of farming as a whole is greatly re- 

 pressed by lack of mutual understanding and 

 good faith in the transportation and marketing 

 of agricultural produce. 



Without expressing an opinion on these ques- 

 tions, we feel that there should be a free under- 

 standing between transportation companies and 

 farmers in respect to their mutual business. We 

 find that farmers who have well-informed opin- 

 ions on tariff, education and other public ques- 

 tions are yet wholly uninformed in respect to the 

 transportation man's point of view on freight 

 rates and express rates that may be in dispute. 

 A disposition on the part of all parties to discuss 

 the misunderstandings fairly would probably 

 accomplish much. 



The whole matter of railway freight rates 

 should be made more understandable. There 

 should be a simplifying or codifying of rates that 

 will enable the farmer or a group of farmers or of 

 other citizens who use the railways, to ascertain 



