Excerpt from Railroads and Farming: Some Influences Affecting the Progress of Agriculture The most prominent of all classes of occupations which have aided agriculture is that of transportation. The railroad companies are now making, and for a number of years have made, special efforts, apart from their strictly transportation business, to promote agri culture. There have been at least two strong motives for the rail road companies to do this. One motive has been andis the large percentage of the revenue which is due to the farm. During the year ending June 30, 1910, the revenue from four classes of farm products, grain, hay, cotton, and live stock, amounted to on those roads for which reports on this subject were made to the Interstate Commerce Commission; they operated more than one half the mileage of the United States, and carried about one-half of the total tonnage. With the data for these companies as a basis, it is estimated that 10 per cent of the total freight revenue of the railroads of the United States was derived from carrying grain, hay, cotton, and live stock. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.