. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 36 BULLETIN 971), IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. tection, the buyers frequently experience considerable loss and some Avill buy only such cars as the seller guarantees to be uniformly loaded with hay of the quality shown by the plug (fig. 6). The practicability of the plug method depends to a great extent upon the facilities available for plugging the cars. The plug yards must be located so as to be convenient to the trade and so that the railroads may place cars in them with the minimum amount of expense. At Chicag
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 36 BULLETIN 971), IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. tection, the buyers frequently experience considerable loss and some Avill buy only such cars as the seller guarantees to be uniformly loaded with hay of the quality shown by the plug (fig. 6). The practicability of the plug method depends to a great extent upon the facilities available for plugging the cars. The plug yards must be located so as to be convenient to the trade and so that the railroads may place cars in them with the minimum amount of expense. At Chicago, for ex- ample, it has been found impracticable to establish plug yards for the reason that no place is available that can be reached economic- ally by all the prin- cipal roads bringing hay into that mar- ket. At Memphis, cars are plugged and inspected and the hay is loaded back into the cars immediately be- cause the yards do not afford a desir- able place' for sell- ing. The cost of selling by the plug method is greater than the others com- monly used an d varies from 75 cents to $3 per car accord- ing to the services Fig. 0.—Showing quantity of hay usually taken from the car as a plug. Sales at Wakehouses. At JNew York, Boston, Baltimore, and other eastern markets, as well as at several southern markets, the railroads maintain ware- houses into which all hay is unloaded upon arrival and from which practically all sales are made. The hay from each car is stored sepa- rately so that its iclentiy is not lost. The dealers visit these ware- houses each day, and the hay is disposed of at private sales between. 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 United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
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