. Field crop production; a text-book for elementary courses in schools and brief courses in colleges. Agriculture. MARKETING OF GRAIN 393 the market price of a crop. So important are these facts that some commission and brokerage houses employ experts to make a canvass of the principal producing areas of the crops in which they are interested, sometimes sending them into foreign lands. Most commission firms, however, depend upon government weather and crop reports and other information which they frequently. Fig. 134. — An elevator and concrete storage bins at Baltimore, Md. Grain is exported
. Field crop production; a text-book for elementary courses in schools and brief courses in colleges. Agriculture. MARKETING OF GRAIN 393 the market price of a crop. So important are these facts that some commission and brokerage houses employ experts to make a canvass of the principal producing areas of the crops in which they are interested, sometimes sending them into foreign lands. Most commission firms, however, depend upon government weather and crop reports and other information which they frequently. Fig. 134. — An elevator and concrete storage bins at Baltimore, Md. Grain is exported from here. receive from country elevators throughout the country. The crop reporting system of the Bureau of Statistics of the United States Department of Agriculture is very complete, by which reports are received from all parts of the country from representatives or agents of the bureau. Some 50,000 agents and representatives are employed in collecting and sending to the Department these crops reports. The information thus received is issued to the public in monthly crop reports. From the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Livingston, George. New York, The Macmillan company
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