. The book of corn; a complete treatise upon the culture, marketing and uses of maize in America and elsewhere, for farmers, dealers, manufacturers and others--a comprehensive manual upon the production, sale, use and commerce of the world's greatest crop . outh America, Africa, Mexico and,in a small way, Asia and the Pacific Islands. Argen-tine corn is something of a competitor in the old worldmarkets, which include Europe, South Airica, exports of corn are ten to sixty millionbushels annually. See Appendix, later pages, for de-tailed official figures showing foreign movement of
. The book of corn; a complete treatise upon the culture, marketing and uses of maize in America and elsewhere, for farmers, dealers, manufacturers and others--a comprehensive manual upon the production, sale, use and commerce of the world's greatest crop . outh America, Africa, Mexico and,in a small way, Asia and the Pacific Islands. Argen-tine corn is something of a competitor in the old worldmarkets, which include Europe, South Airica, exports of corn are ten to sixty millionbushels annually. See Appendix, later pages, for de-tailed official figures showing foreign movement ofcorn. The United States produces more than eightyper cent of the worlds corn crop. The next largestproducers are Austria-Hungary and Argentina. Floating elevators are largely used in transfer-ring grain from vessels to warehouses, both on thisside of the Atlantic and in Europe. That illustratedin Fig 57, with various modifications, is largely usedin Liverpool in unloading grain from vessels. Itcontains a lifting apparatus operated on the usualprinciples, and does the work rapidly. A large partof the American grain destined tor foreign marketsis sold c i f (cost, insurance and freight), themarine insurance and ocean freight being included inthe Fig 57—Floating Grain Elevator Used to some extent at English seaports 242 THE BOOK OF CORN MERITS OF THE COUNTRY ELEVATOR SYSTEM Farmers elevators and co-operative societies forthe economical handling of corn in producing sectionsare increasing in number. This is particularly true interritory west of the Mississippi river. Where inde-pendent or line elevators lack in competitive bidding,or refuse to pay prices satisfactory to producers, citymarkets considered, the farmers elevators find a trueplace. These are usually organized on the co-opera-tive plan, farmers adjacent to a given shipping pointchoosing their own officers and manager, subscribingfor the stock, erecting a new warehouse and elevator,or buying and refitting an old
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