DEMURRAGE INFORMATION FOR FARMERS. 9 



APPLICATION OF THE RULES. 



These regulations apply, of course, to all shippers ahke. None was 

 designed to favor any particular industry, as appears to be the case 

 in some of the State codes. However, the exclusion of Sunday in 

 rule 3 and the provision for weather allowance in rule 8 are possibly 

 of greater advantage, on the whole, in rural communities than 

 elsewhere. 



The average agreement in rule 9 is of no advantage to the farmer 

 for the reason that he is shipping more than he receives. Its aboli- 

 tion would decrease car detention and thereby benefit the farmer as 

 well as other car users. It is under attack from many quarters on 

 the ground that it enables industries to detain unduly inbound cars 

 of raw material on credits accrued on outbound cars of finished 

 product, which are loaded to fiU orders and would be loaded just as 

 promptly in the absence of an average agreement. 



EXCEPTIONS TO THE UNIFORM CODE. 



Such are the provisions of the code of National Car Demurrage 

 Rules, which are applied on interstate business throughout practically 

 the entire United States and on intrastate business in 24 of the 

 States. Some few exceptions are made here and there, and attention 

 is called to the fact that there is not absolute uniformity in every 

 particular in all sections of the country. The principal exceptions 

 are noted below. They are for the most part of a minor nature and 

 not such as to destroy the generally uniform character of the rules. 



The free time on shipments for transfer to water carriers will vary 

 with different railroads, for different commodities, and at different 

 ports. Some of the lines, members of the Chicago Demurrage Bureau 

 and of the Missouri VaUey Demurrage and Storage Bureau, make a 

 track storage charge in addition to the demurrage charge. Members 

 of the Intermountain Demurrage Bureau, operating in Utah, Nevada, 

 and Idaho, except empties placed for loading live stock, allow 96 

 hours for unloading ore and concentrates, with no weather allowance, 

 and coUect S5 per day additional on certain high explosives. The 

 Montana Demurrage Bureau allows 72 hours at Butte and East 

 Helena for unloading interstate shipments of ore, concentrates, and 

 eight othf;r commodities. The Northern Demurrage Bureau, whose 

 member lines operate in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South 

 Dakota, makos special provisions for the inspection of grain and 

 hay. The Pacific Car Demurrages Bureau, with 31 lines operating 

 in California, Arizona, and New Mexico as members, exempt private 

 curs on private tracks when the cars are used for the transportation 

 of c*)mmoditi('s which the owncirs of the cars produce or in wl)ich 

 thoy deal, exc^mpts empties for loading live stock, makes no allow- 

 ance for weather conditions, allows 24 hours only for the unloading 



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