. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 130 The Florists* Revie\^ .\( II !t. I!t22 on carload iiiovt'inunts of iiurscrv jiroil nets. Tlio reduction of tea jx'r cent ill tlie rates on agricultural i^rod- applies whether tlie rates are class or coniinoditv rates, and consefiueiitly it is our opiiiidii that the fact tliat nursery jtrodiicts ill carload (juaiitities largely nio\'e on (dass rales is no valid reason for denviii}; to tlie luirseryineii of the country tlie same treatment which has been aecoideil the farmers and other The reduction of ten ill the rates on at;ricu
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 130 The Florists* Revie\^ .\( II !t. I!t22 on carload iiiovt'inunts of iiurscrv jiroil nets. Tlio reduction of tea jx'r cent ill tlie rates on agricultural i^rod- applies whether tlie rates are class or coniinoditv rates, and consefiueiitly it is our opiiiidii that the fact tliat nursery jtrodiicts ill carload (juaiitities largely nio\'e on (dass rales is no valid reason for denviii}; to tlie luirseryineii of the country tlie same treatment which has been aecoideil the farmers and other The reduction of ten ill the rates on at;ricul- oii all kinds of agriciilt iirists. Jier cent made tural proiliicts ap])lies seeds. ?? Sizemore's Facts Substantiated. Mr. Si/.emore was ai-c()m|iaiiied liy r)r. Gould, ](oiiioloj>ical expert in the l)e jiartment of Aitiiculture, who gave the coniniissioii, in ;i few wiirds, a Idrd's- eye view of the nursery iiulustry as re- lated to the fruit grower and farmer. '•While tliere were several hundred million fruit trees in the I'nited States at the time of the last census," said Dr. (rould, ''this nunilier was many mil- lions Ixdow that of the preceding een- .sus, due in jiart to the dying off of home orchards for lack of care during the war and in ]iart to the fact that many who entered the fruit industry during that jieriod were not siifliciently skilled l)ro])erly to jdant and care for their trees.'' The size of the industry he visu- alized from the fact that about 5, 000 acres of land are di'voted to fruit growing, and the fruit crop of the coiin- trv is worth between !(;400,( 100,000 and .'(i;")'00,000,00(i a year. Between 400,000 and ,'500,000 freight cars are required to move the cro]> to market, showing how important a jiart fruit ])lays in the transportation industry. The restric- tion of this movement by high freight rates, it was pointed (uit, was directly cutting the revenue of the carriers. "To maintain and ex'i)and this in dustry,
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