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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 1918. 
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 
