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the vast subsidies voted to other gov- 

 ernmental agencies. Senator Black says, 

 over a billion dollars subsidy has been 

 voted to air mail contract carriers since 

 1925. There is nothing to show for this 

 money today in the form of tangible 



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On the other hand, the Inland Water- 

 ways Corporation has valuable property 

 and equipment to account for every 

 penny of its investment. It owns a fleet 

 of 25 towboats ranging from 600 to 2,700 

 H. P., four 800 H. P. self-propelled 

 barges and 266 steel barges, varying 

 from 400 to 3,000 tons capacity. In ad- 

 dition, it has thousands of dollars worth 

 of terminal equipment and a 20 mile rail- 

 road connecting its terminals on the 

 Warrior River with Birmingham, Ala. 



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i /a8 Barges One Load 

 Few people realize the huge tonnkges 

 moved by this equipment. One of the 

 regulation 2,000 ton barges, from an 

 interior view, resembles a large two- 

 deck warehouse. It has a capacity 

 equivalent to fifty 40 ton freight cars. 

 The standard tow consists of eight such 

 barges corresponding to 400 railroad 



cars. 



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; On the Lower Mississippi Division the 

 Bervice consists of two tows per week in 

 each direction between New Orleans, 

 25aint Louis and Chicago. .^; .- ; -© 



The Upper Mississippi Division oper- 

 ates two tows per week in each direction 

 between St. Louis and Minneapolis. This 

 service is synchronized with that on the 

 Lower Mississippi and close connections 

 are made at St. Louis, avoiding delay in- 

 cident to transfer between the two di- 



visions. 



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The Warrior Division maintains a 

 weekly self-propelled barge service be- 

 tween New Orleans and Mobile and a 

 weekly towboat service between Mobile 

 and Birmingport. 



Water-Rail Rates 



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While this far-flung system of silently 

 efficient and cheap transportation pre- 

 sents a most striking picture, the most 

 interesting phase of the service from a 

 practical standpoint, is the tremendous 

 saving it affords the shipping public. 



Federal Barge Line rates are gener- 

 ally made with relation to, and twenty 

 per cent less than, corresponding all-rail 

 rates. Substantially the same savings 

 are available under joint barge-and-rail 

 and rail-barge-rail rates as are afforded 

 by the all-water rates between Barge 

 Line Ports. 



As a result of long and continued ef- 

 fort joint rates have been established 

 with 135 railroads, and through these 

 joint rates the people of 42 of the 48 

 states may share in the economical bene- 

 fits of water transportation. 



Up to December 31, 1933 the direct 

 savings on freight handled by the Barge 



JOSEPH J. FORD, AGE 102, OF CRAWFORD 

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Line amounted to over $20,000,000; but, 

 this sum is insignificant compared with 

 the reduction by other carriers induced 

 by water competition. The following 

 illustrations give some idea of this bene- 

 fit to the public: — 



Rates — (In cents per hundred lbs.) 



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1931— New Orleans, La. to ^ j •■ "^ * 

 -^Chicago, 111. . . . .V. . .v.":t ■' M ' ■•■■'a- ■ " ■ - ^ ' '? r ' ■ "■ 

 Present New Orleans, La. 

 . to Chicago, III 33 .25% Kxport 



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 1931~racific Coast to >:" 



I'eoria, 111 1.05 . 



IM-esent Pacific Coast to 



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Saving 



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Grain 



1931 — St. Louis, Mo. to 

 New Orleans, La 



Present St. Louis, Mo. to 

 New Orlf^ans, La 



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Saving ...^.. ........ . .20.5 



While the farmer participates in these 

 savings as a general consumer, he is 

 benefited even more in the shipment of 

 his own products. The cotton growers in 

 the south and the grain producers in 

 the north are reaping the full advantage 

 of this service. It permits an augmented 

 movement of grain south, creating a 

 new competitive condition, relieving the 

 congestion at Chicago and, thus, tend- 

 ing to elevate the general price level. 

 This benefits all growers whether they 

 are located adjacent to the waterways 

 or not. 



This is the first of two articles on the inland 

 waterways hy Mr. Wilkin. The second will ap- 

 pear in the next issue of the RECORD. — Editor. 



A Good Team 



I just want to express to you my 

 appreciation of the picture on the cover 

 of the September issue of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association Record. When 

 I look at it, it brings to my mind the 

 days when I worked in the hay fields 

 and harvest fields on my father's farm 

 over sixty years ago. We had just such 

 a team of kindly faced, docile animals 

 then. I just cannot help liking horses 

 and mules for farm work. If treated 

 kindly and properly cared for, it is a 

 real pleasure to work with them — they 

 seem to form an integral part of the 

 farm family. An intelligent team greets 

 you in the morning, is only too pleased 

 to carry out one's every demand — and to 

 my mind represents one of the pleasures 



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I fully appreciate the value and neces- 

 sity of mechanical equipment on the 

 farm of today — I do not for a moment 

 think we should go back to horse farm- 

 ing — but I do love a good team of horses 

 or mules, and the illustration on the 

 RECORD that came to my desk today 

 brought it to mind, and I thought I 

 would let you know how I liked it. K 

 , W. E. Taylor, Deere & Co., 





Moline, 111. 



New Treaty WithlCuba 4^-- ; 



To Aid Farm Exports 



It is estimated that the new trade 

 treaty recently completed with Cuba will 

 result in that country's taking the output 

 of nearly a million acres of American 

 farm lands if the agreement works out 

 as expected. George N. Peek of Illinois, 

 v.; ' ■■' ■ '■■■.''^■/ ■ special adviser t o 



the President on 

 foreign trade, was 

 i n s t r u,m e n t a 1 

 in working out the 

 agreement., 



Cuba sharply low- 

 ered its tariff 

 against lard and 

 pork products, cot- 

 ton seed, corn, and 

 soybean oil, wheat 

 flour, canned vege- 

 tables and a number 

 of industrial products in return for 

 lowering the import duty on Cuban 

 sugar and tobacco, j';^^ 



The loss of this market since 1928 be- 

 cause of the high Smoot-Hawley tariff, 

 retaliatory tariffs by Cuba, and lower 

 buying power in that country represented 

 the output of 817,267 acres of American 

 farm lands. v ^ /^ ^ 



GEO. N. PEEK 





' Quality Milk Association had a special exhihit 

 at the Mississippi Valley Fair, Davenport, la. 

 sho'wing: a mechanical professor who gave a ihort 

 talk every 10 minutes about the value of milk. 

 The talk was recorded on a disc which auto- 

 matically sw'itched on every 10 minutes throug-h- 

 out the day. Manager Frank Watson reports that 

 close to 60,000 people viewed the exhibit. 



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