CHAPTER Vn 

 THE BURDEN OF TRANSPORTATION 



Agbicultuee has always borne the larger part 

 of the essential costs of transportation. This 

 is due to the fact that the farmer cannot select 

 his location entirely with respect to market, 

 but must locate where the soil and climate will 

 favor the production of the crop he chooses to 

 grow. Only a few farmers can locate near cen- 

 ters of consumption, or ports of export. But 

 there must always be a large part of our farm 

 production that must be carried long distances 

 from point of production to the centers of large 

 groups of consumers. 



The fact is oft stated, yet easily passed by, 

 that the farmer pays freight both coming and 

 going. His price for the goods that he sells 

 is the wholesale price less the freight. While 

 the cost of all that he buys is the actual cost 

 plus the freight on the finished product to his 

 farm. Included in the costs of the manufactured 

 products which the farmer buys in large pro- 

 portion are the freights upon raw materials 

 which have been produced upon other farms. 



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