The investment for the mill buildings complete with bins and fix- 

 tures installed ranges from $27,083 for Mill A to $272,091 for Mill F as 

 shown in Table 6. 



3. Warehouse — Each mill has a warehouse adjoining the mill 

 building and adjacent to rail siding for receiving and storing bagged in- 

 gredients. Warehouses have a capacity equivalent to a ten-day require- 

 ment for bagged ingredients. Such buildings are steel framed with metal 

 sheathing, constructed on a concrete pad. A cost rate of $6.00 per square 

 foot was used to estimate the warehouse investment for each model mill. 



4. Office — Each mill has office space for its administrative per- 

 sonnel and staff. The space required for each model is primarily a func- 

 tion of the number of personnel. Square footage requirements were es- 

 timated and a cost rate of $10.00 per square foot was used to determine 

 the investment. 



5. Boiler House — Substantial quantities of steam are required in 

 feed manufacturing for making pellets, heating fat, and heating various 

 sections of the mill. Each mill has one boiler to supply steam, and the 

 boiler is located in a boiler house near the mill. The size of the ])oiler 

 house is based on the dimensions of the boiler. A cost rate of $12.00 per 

 square foot was used and includes building construction, accessories, and 

 the stack. 



6. Grain Storage — Each mill has capacity to store a ten-day re- 

 quirement of shelled corn. The storage facilities range in capacity from 

 4,400 bushels to74,000 bushels, and consist of two or more round bolted 

 steel tanks located next to the mill building and siding. The investment 

 includes the tanks, fabricated steel supports, concrete pad and footings, 

 ladders, walkways, and erection labor costs. 



7. Rail Siding — Each mill requires a rail siding to spot and hold 

 loaded cars of ingredients and empty cars waiting to be picked up. Since 

 the railroads in New England generally do not provide private sidings 

 at their expense, the cost is borne by the firm reqiiiring the siding. The 

 linear feet of siding was derived by estimating the likely maximum num- 

 ber of cars to be on track daily and assumed only one switch per day by 

 the railroad. Mills A through D have a one-track siding while Mills E 

 and F have a two-track siding. A rate of $11.00 per linear foot of track 

 was used to derive the siding cost. 



8. Finished Feed Holding — Each mill has a finished feed holding 

 capacity equivalent to the daily output of each formulation in bulk form. 

 This facility consists of square bolted steel bins erected on a steel frame 

 over a weighing unit and is located next to the mill Imilding. The invest- 

 ment for finished feed storage includes the cost of the bins, fabricated 

 steel, erection, concrete supports, and the weighing unit. A platform 

 motor truck scale to weigh the feed is used for Mills A through C. while 

 a traveling weigh hopper over the trucks is used in Mills D, E, and F. 



9. Land — Acreage requirements for the several mills were deter- 

 mined from physical layout drawings. The land requirement ranges from 



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