Certain other details with respect to New England transit privileges 

 are worthy of note. Within New England (as throughout official territory) 

 the privilege of applying the through rate from the transit stations is re- 

 stricted to the transit portion of any mixed feed prepared at that point. 

 Transit privileges within New England extend for a period of 12 months at 

 through rates applicable from origin to final destination, with an extension 

 of an additional 12 months for a small additional charge. This means grain 

 can be stored enroute, milled, mixed, and shipped at the through rate, within 

 the preceding time considerations. New England is very favorably lo- 

 cated insofar as transit privileges are concerned on feedstuffs and grain 

 from Canadian origins. This undoubtedly contributes to the importance of 

 Canadian firms as suppliers of feed ingredients to New Hampshire mills 

 (see Table 6). 



The preceding discussion has merely scratched the surface of one of 

 the most complicated transportation subjects, and there are many exceptions, 

 modifications, and deviations from the general rules. However, to further 

 classify the general principles, insofar as New England is concerned, two 

 examples are presented below. 



The rate for grain shipped from Chicago, Illinois, to St. Albans, Ver- 

 mont, or to Portland. Maine, in early 1951, was 431/0 cents per 100 pounds 

 in lots. The Chicago-Portland rate was still 43V2 cents per 100 pounds even 

 though the shipment was "stopped off" at St. Albans for milling-in-transit 

 or diversion. 



In late 1953 carloads of brewers' grains moving from Milwaukee, Wis- 

 consin, to Concord, New Hampshire, carried a rate of 44 cents per 100 

 pounds (plus 12 percent plus 3 percent tax), irrespective of whether the 

 shipment moved directly from origin to destination, or "stopped off" in 

 western New York for milling-in-transit. 



The principal point to remember in connection with the milling-in- 

 transit privilege is that it generally means for New Hampshire that the 

 rate-cost of the transit portion of grain-feeds is the same irrespective of 

 destination point or where milling is done. Since transit items constitute 

 such a large proportion of grain-feeds (as can be observed in Table 7) the 

 milling-in-transit privilege has much to do with the co-existence in the New 

 Hampshire market of brands produced by local mills and mills at other 

 widely separated points. 



Non-Transit Ingredients. 



It has been previously noted that grains, grain products and by- 

 products, and related items (milling-in-transit items) included such feed in- 

 gredients as brewers' and distillers' grains, and soybeans, cottonseed, and 

 linseed and their meals. The principal non-transit items in the average mixed 

 grain-feed are, therefore, such things as meat scraps, fish meal, dried whey, 

 powdered skimmilk, molasses, and various nutritive and biotic supplements. 



Table 7 shows the estimated proportions of milling-in-transit items in 

 selected grain-feeds. Non-transit items make up the balance. Obviously, these 

 proportions are only approximations; deviations from these figures might 

 occur due to different animal protein levels, relative ingredient prices, and 

 a variety of other reasons. The point of predominance of milling-in-transit 

 items in most grain-feeds, however, is well substantiated by these approxi- 

 mations. 



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