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of food, and also aiding in a very essential manner to 

 win the war. Employes taking this action will, in 

 addition, be helping themselves in one of the best pos- 

 sible ways. It is for just such purposes as these that 

 the Daylight Saving plan was initiated. Last year the 

 employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad lines east of 

 Pittsburgh raised crops of an estimated value of one 

 quarter of a million dollars. Let us endeavor to surpass 

 this good record in 191 8. 



Many other railroads deserve special mention for 

 their activity in this line. Among them are the New 

 York Central, the Union Pacific, the Northern Pacific, 

 the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, the Illinois Central, the 

 Atlantic Coast Line, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, 

 the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Long Island, the 

 New York, New Haven & Hartford, the Missouri Pacific, 

 the Erie, the Boston & Albany, the Delaware & Hudson, 

 the Chicago & Northwestern, the Pere Marquette, the 

 Louisville & Nashville, the Norfolk & Western, the 

 Seaboard Air Line, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 

 and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis. 

 The New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company 

 reported that a number of gardens were planted along 

 its right of way in 1917 and that in 1918 all available 

 land was applied for and assigned for this purpose. 



A report from the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh 

 Railway showed that more than 2,100 bushels of seed 

 potatoes were furnished to the prospective gardeners, 

 and that the men not only planted these but bought 

 more for themselves, besides buying seed for other 



