CHAPTER VIII 

 MARKETING 



The Methods of Marketing Wheat. - - Methods 

 of disposing of the wheat crop differ in the various 

 countries. The exchange of wheat for flour at 

 small country mills is the custom in many of the 

 smaller European nations and even to some ex- 

 tent in the United States, although rarely is this 

 done in the greater wheat-producing districts. 

 The exchange or trading of wheat for other prod- 

 ucts has generally given way to selling ; and the 

 selling scheme, i.e., marketing, varies from an 

 operation which is very simple to one which is 

 very complex. 



Wheat sold to Local Mill. The simplest method 

 of marketing wheat is that of selling to the local 

 mills. Flour mills are quite generally found 

 throughout the older settled wheat districts, yet 

 in most cases they do not* buy directly from the 

 farmers. Direct selling, that is, selling from 

 producer to mill, is prevalent now in this country 

 only where fields are small and where the total 

 production in a community does not greatly 

 exceed the consumption. In such a region of small 



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