TRANSPORTATION AND STORAGE FACILITIES * 595 



where transfers are regularly made for Indianapolis. It reaches that 

 city early Friday morning, about the time it would have reached 

 Chicago had there been no diversion. 



186. CONCENTRATION AND STORAGE-IN-TRANSIT 

 PRIVILEGES 1 



BY T. F. POWELL 



The lack of proper assembling methods is one of the chief diffi- 

 culties encountered in a successful solution of the marketing problem. 

 In localities where suitable common or cold storage facilities are 

 available, the growers oi farm products would find the concentration 

 and storage-in-transit privileges two of the most desirable means for 

 bringing about the widest distribution. Shippers, as a rule, are not 

 familiar with these arrangements; if they were utilized more fre- 

 quently it would enable shippers to move their freight to market in 

 carload lots, .thus securing the benefit of the lowest rates and the 

 quickest service. 



Concentration is defined as the shipment in less than carloads of 

 certain commodities to certain points, after which the shipments are 

 reforwarded in carload lots. 



Storage in transit is defined as the shipment in carloads to storage 

 points of freight which has already been combined into carload lots 

 under or independent of the concentrating arrangement. 



The concentrating privilege at the present time is confined largely 

 to butter, cheese, eggs, and poultry and permits of grading, mixing, 

 repacking, and storing. Under this arrangement live poultry in car- 

 loads is frequently shipped to a concentrating point and dressed 

 poultry in carload lots is forwarded from such concentrating point. 

 In some cases special any-quantity rates are provided to concentrating 

 points. In other cases the carload rate in effect from original point 

 of shipment to final destination is applied plus an additional charge 

 of 5 or 10 cents or more. 



The storage privilege is allowed on all of the above commodities, 

 and concentrated carload shipments of such commodities forwarded 

 from a concentrating point in some sections may be stopped once in 

 transit for storage. Storage in transit independent of the concentrat- 

 ing privilege is allowed also on green apples in packages, onions, 



1 From Farmers 1 Bulletin 672, United States Department of Agriculture, pp. 

 15-16. 



