410 AGRICULTURAL APPR()1*RL\T1()X BILL, 1924. 



Butchers" Association of Chicajjo we are cooperatincr with the North- 

 western Univei'sity in makinfj detailed study of the accounting 

 methods and systems used })v tlie retailers of Chicao;o. 



Mr. AxDEJJsox. To what extent is tliis done in connection with, or 

 do you use tlie fjtjures of. Harvard rnivei-sity? 



We are matcing cost stuches of the niarketinj^: of ^faine, Wisconsin. 

 Michigan, Massachusetts, and Minnesota potatoes, which are con- 

 tinuations of the work startetl hist year. We are covering the entire 

 costs from the time the commodity leaves the producer to the time 

 it reaches the consumer. We are iinding (|uite a little interest in this 

 suhject. and are getting plenty of offers of cooperation, some of which 

 we iind it necessary to turn down. In some places agencies that are 

 anxious to do this work are too anxious to prove that certain types of 

 middlemen are entirely unnecessary, wrong, or dishonest. That 

 condition of thought is disastrous in good research. Where that 

 occurs, of course, we have to decline the ofl'er of cooperation. We 

 are trying to get others to cooperate with us and to look at facts as 

 they are. 



As Doctor Taylor pointed out. it is contemplated that a complete 

 study of marketing agricultural crops, such as grain, fruits, vegetables, 

 dairy products, cotton, wool, and live stock, will shortly be made. 

 Along with such study should go the study of costs of marketing. The 

 marketing picture is not complete without such studies. The ap- 

 propriation increase of $28,000 is to cover the study of market 

 margins and costs of these commodities. 



TERMIXAL HANDLIXCJ OF FRUITS. VEGETABLES, AXl) OTHER PERLSH- 



ABLES. 



To give an illustration of some of the things which cost studies are 

 fleveloping: In cooperation with the port authorities of Xew York 

 City we are making a study of the terminal handling of fruits, vege- 

 tables, and other perishables. We have found, by studying the 

 costs of handling of commodities, after unloading on the Manhattan 

 terminal piers of the Pennsylvania and Erie railroads, that the cost 

 of handling of crates of commodities from the piers to the roadwaj', 

 or marginal way, as it is called, tluit the charge may be as great as 

 the entire freiglit cost fi-om the point (»f pitHJuction to the Manhattan 

 piers. 



Mr. Andf.r.sox. In( ludiny; the fieij'ht '. 



Mr. ScnoENFELD. The charge for hauling from the pier to the road 

 way, a distance of 400 feet, may he as great as the freight charges 

 from the point of production in the West or the South to the Man- 

 hat Ian piers. 



Mr. AxDKR.soN. 1 do not douht it a hit. 



Mr. ScHOENFELi). That has forcibly brought out expensive prac- 

 tices. The port authorities of Xew York City are very mucn in- 

 terested in thiit )>oint. It hiings out the necessity of regulations for 

 the ternurud iiandliii^ of fruits and vegetables in New Vork City. 



Mr. ScjioENFELi). Harvard has dime nothing in the retailing of 

 nieats. 



Mr. AxDKRSoN. 1 know, hut they have done a lot of work in other 

 retail work that could he used in coiuicction with the retail of nu-ats^ 





