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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



Chariton, Iowa 



October, 1883. 



Glyndon. 



No. 1. 



405 00 1 





do oo(\ 



No. 2. $117 5 



No. 6. $200 00 



No. 



$210 00 1 



No. 8. $1,057 5 



$562 50 



No. 9. $1,620 00 

 8180 00 



No. 10. $1,800 00 



No. 1, $405, is the price which the 

 farmer receives in Iowa, at 90 cents 

 per bushel ; $360, in Dakota, at 80 cents 

 per bushel. 



No. 2, $117.50 is the charge made 

 by the railway for moving 450 bushels 

 of wheat from" Chariton to Chicago, and 

 100 barrels of flour thence to Boston, 

 $197.50 ; Glyndon to Minneapolis and 

 thence to Boston, $82.25 ; cost of rail- 

 road service at 70 per cent., $138.25 of 

 the total charges. 



$35.25 profit, at 30 per cent., $59,25. 



No. 3, $50, cost of milling. 

 No. 4, $45, cost of barrels. 

 No. 5, $30, merchant's commissions 

 and cartage in Boston. 



No. 6, $200, cost of labor in making 

 100 barrels flour into bread in a small 

 bakery. 



No. 7, $210, cost of fuel, yeast, salt, 

 etc., used in converting 100 barrels flour 

 into bread. 



No. 8, final cost of bread ready for 

 distribution, average 3 J cents per 

 pound ; varying a little with the quality 

 of the flour and the quality of bread. 

 Iowa flour yields 270 and 200 pounds per 

 barrel ; Dakota flour yields 280 and 300 

 pounds per barrel. 



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$360 00 No. 1. 



$197 50 No. 2. 



$50 00 No. 3. 

 $45 00 No. 4. 

 $30 00 No. 5. 



No. 6. 



$210 00 No. 7. 



No. 9, the price which the poorer peo- 

 ple of Boston pay for poor bread, made 

 from a medium grade known as " baker's 

 flour," averages not less than 6 cents 

 per pound, which makes the cost of 

 distributing 100 barrels of Iowa flour 

 baked into bread, No. 9, $562.50, and 

 100 barrels Dakota flour, $587.50 at the 

 minimum yield of 270 and 280 pounds 

 bread to the barrel. When either kind 

 of flour is treated so as to yield 300 

 pounds bread to a barrel and sold 

 at 6 cents per pound, $180, or $120, is 

 added, and the final cost of the bread 

 to the consumer is at the rate of $18 

 per barrel of flour, No. 10. 



$1,092 50 No. 8. 



, $587 S o 



pi, 680 00 No. 9. 

 $120 00 



$1,800 00 No. 10. 



The foregoing table was made in 1883, when wheat was worth ninety cents a bushel on 

 the far Western farms. The price of wheat, and the charges for transportation and milling, 

 are now lower. The cost of distributing bread is now greater in proportion than it was in 1883. 



