Food for 



Cost of Transportation of Fertilizers. Plants 



A striking illustration of the difference in the cost 

 of transportation by four different ways is given below: 



Cost of Transportation per Ton. 



Horse power. 5 miles $1 .25 



Electric power, 25 miles 1 . 25 



Steam cars, 250 miles 1 . 25 



Steamships on the lakes, 1,000 miles 1 .25 



RETABULATION SHOWS THAT: 



$1.25 Will Haul a Ton— 



5 miles on a common road, 

 12}/2 to 15 miles on a well-made stone road, 

 25 miles on a trolley road, 

 250 miles on a steam railway, 

 1,000 miles on a steamship. 



It will be seen that the same amount of money it 

 takes to haul a given amount of produce five miles on a 

 public highway of the United States will pay the freight 

 for 250 miles on a railroad and 1,000 miles on a steam- 

 ship line on the lakes. This is too great a difference, as 

 will be admitted by all, and when we think of the fact 

 that the railroad companies are ever at work repair- 

 ing and improving their highways while the farmer is 

 apparently so little awake to his own interests in re- 

 gard to furnishing himself with better roads, we wonder 

 why it is. The lesson seems plain and clear, and, as 

 farmers, let us continue to aid the good road move- 

 ment throughout the country. 



Nitrate of Soda is essentially a seaboard article; 

 supplies at interior points are not always available, 

 hence the ports of entry are indicated to you as the 

 best sources of supply. 



It has been the custom of the railroad companies to 

 discriminate heavily against Nitrate of Soda by charg- 

 ing prohibitory chemical rates, and it is hoped by cor- 

 rectly designating the material, the discrimination will 

 not be practiced. 



Farm newspapers generally, are quite willing to 

 publish wholesale quotations on all those things which 

 the farmer has to sell, and they have not, as a rule, 



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