Report of the Federal Trade Commission on the Grain Trade, Volúmenes1-3

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1920

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Cooperative development
53
Proportion of cooperative elevators in specified States in com
55
Diagram F Per cent distribution by types of elevators in each of 14
58
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF COUNTRY ELEVATORS
60
Average capacity of elevators and warehouses in the United
62
Construction materials of elevators and warehouses
68
Materials of which elevators were constructed in specified
69
DEVELOPMENT OF COUNTRY ELEVATORS AND COUNTRY MARKET
74
Distribution of mill elevators by specified States in comparison
79
Individual mill elevators___
82
Effects of opposition to cooperatives_
92
Number and percentage of elevators in specified States report
98
Outright sales by farmer to the elevator_
99
The storage function and the sale of grain after storage_
105
Sale of grain by contracts
112
Variations in crop production and country elevator marketings
115
Seasonal variations in country elevator purchases_
120
Monthly distribution of total grain purchases in specified States
122
Page
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Number of cars shipped to specified markets receiving more
129
Relation of size of terminal markets to country grain movement__
131
Shipments in territory outside ChicagoMinneapolis tributary
137
Shipments to interior brokers and others by kind of grain_
143
Distribution of country elevator shipments of specified grains
144
Explanation of variations in grains___
149
Number and proportion of cars of grain sold by country ele
150
Elevation or loading charges
157
Percentages of elevators of different types with and without
161
Cooperatives and independents_
163
Number and percentages of elevators of different types handling
168
Explanation of type variations in side lines
169
PRICES MARGINS GRADES DOCKAGES AND WEIGHTS
175
Average number of price information services reported
181
Determination of country prices
187
Average buying margins of different types of elevators on speci
192
Summary of interviews on buying margins___
195
Country elevator interviews on sources of loans_
239
Number and proportion of elevators in specified States reporting
240
LIST OF APPENDICES
243
Factors in competition__
245
Competition in prices___
251
Competition in side lines
259
Independent elevator competition_
267
Lineelevator policies in meeting competition
275
Closing and wrecking elevators on a rental basis_
288
Letter of the President to the Chairman of the Federal Trade
315
St Louis Daily Market Reporter___ ___facing__
326
Construction materials of elevators and warehouses in specified
331
Total purchases of each of the five principal grains made
339
principal grainproducing States of the Central West
345
Average annual production of oats in the principal producing States
34
Percentage analysis of sources of grain receipts wheat corn oats
40
Export grain rates from 10 primary markets to 6 Atlantic and Gulf
51
Receipts of grain at Cincinnati St Louis and Chicago in 1858
60
Average freight rates Chicago to New York by lakeandcanal
69
Classification of members of Chicago Board of Trade list dated
75
Elevator storage distribution at Chicago March 31 1868
90
Total elevator warehouse capacity at Chicago relative storage capac
102
Scale ticket 103
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Sources of price information___
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Classification of resident members in the grain trade Milwaukee
135
Chamber of Commerce December 31 1917
141
Memberships of WashburnCrosby interests at Minneapolis
149
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Daily price card_ 176
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Average number of services employed
323
Diagram A Per cent ratio of commercial line elevators to all classes
50
Per cent ratio of individual mill elevators to all classes
103
Type variations in the use of price information services__
155
Results of mixing operations in wheat by two Duluth elevator com
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Página 85 - The true test of legality is whether the restraint imposed is such as merely regulates and perhaps thereby promotes competition or whether it is such as may suppress or even destroy competition. To determine that question the court must ordinarily consider the facts peculiar to the business to which the restraint is applied; its condition before and after the restraint was imposed; the nature of the restraint and its effect, actual or probable. The history of the restraint, the evil believed to exist,...
Página 95 - In this connection it must also be borne in mind that, although in 1874 there were in Chicago fourteen warehouses adapted to this particular business, and owned by about thirty persons, nine business firms controlled them, and that the prices charged and received for storage were such "as have been from year to year agreed upon and established by the different elevators or warehouses in the city of Chicago, and which rates have been annually published in one or more newspapers printed in said city,...
Página 263 - As liquidated damage, the seller shall pay to the purchaser not less than five per cent., nor more than ten per cent, of the value of the commodity as established by the committee ; the percentage, within said limits, to be such as In the judgment of the committee, may be just and equitable. Settlement shall be made without delay, and the damage, as determined under the provisions of this section, shall be due and payable Immediately upon the finding of the committee.
Página 94 - State having not less than one hundred thousand inhabitants, "in which grain is stored in bulk, and in which the grain of different owners is mixed together, or in which grain is stored in such a manner that the identity of different lots or parcels cannot be accurately preserved.
Página 318 - ... ascertain the facts bearing on alleged violations of the antitrust acts, and particularly upon the question whether there are manipulations, controls, trusts, combinations, conspiracies, or restraints of trade out of harmony with the law or the public interest.
Página 63 - Washington is in grain which passes through the elevators of Chicago. In this way the trade in grain is carried on by the inhabitants of seven or eight of the great States of the West with four or five of the States lying on the seashore, and forms the largest part of interstate commerce in these States.
Página 34 - South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Página 133 - ... and that it is deliverable upon the return of the receipt, properly endorsed by the person to whose order it was issued, and the payment of proper charges for storage.
Página 63 - the great producing region of the West and North-west sends its grain by water and rail to Chicago, where the greater part of it is shipped by vessel for transportation to the seaboard by the Great Lakes, and some of it is forwarded by railway to the Eastern ports. . Vessels, to some extent, are loaded in the Chicago harbor, and sailed through the St. Lawrence directly to Europe. . The quantity [of grain] received in Chicago has made it the greatest grain market in the world.
Página 113 - Whoever contracts to have or give to himself or another the option to sell or buy, at a future time...

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