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work, how it should be done. When the car is loaded and registered, a 

 thermometer is put aboard and the car is shipped through and met by one 

 of our own men at its destination, wherever that may be. When the car 

 is opened we look at the goods tested under very definite conditions at the 

 shipping point, and we take the report of the thermometer. 



When we look back four or five years at the general methods of 

 handling our products and compare them with the general methods we 

 have today, there is a general big improvement. The National Poultry 

 Association in 1909 had a meeting of about ninety members where much 

 interest was shown. At their meeting last year there were three thousand 

 members at that meeting and they are working for good ends. This kind 

 of interest is being shown all over the country. It means we have to 

 handle our products better all along the line, and the department, both 

 state and federal, has to send its men out into the highways and byways, 

 out among practical men and take the scientific work they acquire in the 

 laboratories and experimental stations to the people who are actually 

 using them. That is what we are trying to do. 



Mr. Kates: What did the gentleman understand who spoke a while 

 ago as to Dr. King's article? 



Mr. Yearsley: I have in my desk a written report that Professor 

 King wrote on markets of Philadelphia, in which there is the statement 

 that there is a systematic throwing away of produce in the city, in order 

 to maintain prices. 



Mr. Kates : The sense of that, I believe, is that the railroads throw 

 away those consignments only under instructions from the shipper and is 

 not a destructive interest on the part of the railroads. 



Mr. Yearsley: I didn't say a word against the railroads. 



Delegate: I would like to ask if you can reahze how hard it is to 

 get together with the railroad company. We farmers in South Jersey 

 have been shipping goods to Philadelphia and New York markets that 

 take two hours to reach. These goods are ready between three and five 

 o'clock in the afternoon, and have to be here by one or two o'clock the 

 next morning. Frequently these goods don't get into market until 

 between five and six o'clock the next morning. Of course the market is 

 over then and each individual farmer may lose from $10 to $50 on his 

 shipment. We take that up with the railroad company and all the satis- 

 faction we get is that the shipment was delayed. And you have no 

 redress. They say they can't get it in there. We farmers try to get 

 with them, but we get no satisfaction out of them. They say, "If you 

 can't get them there by freight, ship them by express." 



Mrs. Smith: We know that is the crying evil. We would like to 

 hear from Mr. Home. 



