Reports of the Industrial Commission...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1901 - Industries |
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... freight and handling to Chicago . Shipments of corn from Illinois points to Chicago show a much lower cost of distribution . From Media , Ill . , to Chicago the com- bined expenses of distribution on July 25 were 8 cents per bushel for ...
... freight and handling to Chicago . Shipments of corn from Illinois points to Chicago show a much lower cost of distribution . From Media , Ill . , to Chicago the com- bined expenses of distribution on July 25 were 8 cents per bushel for ...
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... freight , is 9.1 per cent of the value to the consumer , and the producer receives 90.9 per cent of what the consumer pays . For 1 cent per pound many interior towns in the cotton territory can put cotton into the ordinary course of ...
... freight , is 9.1 per cent of the value to the consumer , and the producer receives 90.9 per cent of what the consumer pays . For 1 cent per pound many interior towns in the cotton territory can put cotton into the ordinary course of ...
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... freight rates on butter from the West have not changed to any consider- able extent in recent years . From Elgin , Ill . , the great creamery center , to New York , the identical rate is in force now that was charged in 1880. Therefore ...
... freight rates on butter from the West have not changed to any consider- able extent in recent years . From Elgin , Ill . , the great creamery center , to New York , the identical rate is in force now that was charged in 1880. Therefore ...
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... freight to Evansville , and $ 2 more for hauling and storage . The producer thus gets 88 per cent of the value to the consumer and the distributers get 12 per cent . EXPENSES OF MARKETING HAY . ( Part Thirteenth . ) The cost of ...
... freight to Evansville , and $ 2 more for hauling and storage . The producer thus gets 88 per cent of the value to the consumer and the distributers get 12 per cent . EXPENSES OF MARKETING HAY . ( Part Thirteenth . ) The cost of ...
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... freight rates which one may have over the others , and the competi- tion of these markets in equidistant territory is usually so active as to bring about practically equivalent freight rates from the farmer's shipping point to the com ...
... freight rates which one may have over the others , and the competi- tion of these markets in equidistant territory is usually so active as to bring about practically equivalent freight rates from the farmer's shipping point to the com ...
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