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price. Adequate storage facilities of a kind adapted 

 to the product are a fundamental essential of effi- 

 cient marketing in this day of year-long consumption 

 of the staple products of the farm. 



The credit factor is closely allied and the storage 

 and marketing conditions reflect the credit status 

 of the average farmer. Having a short margin of 

 cash funds on which to produce his products, they are 

 in most instances marketed as soon as they are 

 matured. The wave of market-movement follows 

 strongly that of production in all the staple prod- 

 ucts. This ni lis tlie farmer is selling his crop 

 to cover labor and supply bills that have been con- 

 tracted, also on a poor credit basis and, therefore, at 

 a high cost. One of the irritating outgrowths of 

 this system is the car shortage in rail transportation 

 that frequently takes an added toll from the farmers' 

 returns and which would be reduced by a longer sea- 

 son for movement. 



