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1,259 bushels total — Brought when sold $1,490.00 



Total cost of 1259 bushels... 1,392.45 



Profit by storing $97.55 



Estimating the cost of putting this same 1259 bushels 

 of potatoes up in banks, the following figures are given 

 on fifty banks holding 25 bushels each, with the excep- 

 tion of one which would contain 34 bushels : 



$62.95 Estimated cost of handling 1259 bushels at 5 

 cents a bushel. 



282.76 Loss from rot and shrinkage. 30 per cent of 1259 

 bushels at 75 cents a bushel at time of storing. 

 12.50 Interest on investment of 1259 bushels valued at 

 75 cents a bushel at time of storing. 



222.50 Estimated cost of putting up fifty banks of pota- 

 toes — forty-nine banks containing 25 bushels 

 and one bank containing 34 bushels — $4.45 a 

 bank. 

 5.93 Interest on money invested in bank material, 

 $222.50, at 8 per cent for four months, the aver- 

 age banking period. 



63 Total estimated cost of storing 1259 bushels of 

 potatoes in banks. 

 944.25 Value of these potatoes at 75 cents a bushel. 



$1,530.88 Total cost of potatoes if they were stored in banks. 

 1,490.00 Actual selling price of the potatoes. 



$40.88 Money lost by storing potatoes in banks, if they 

 were just as efficient as houses. 



Five cents a bushel was estimated as being the cost 

 of removing the potatoes from the storage-house. It is 

 computed that the cost of putting potatoes in the house 

 would be approximately tihe same as loading them on 

 car to ship when dry, thus offsetting expense of filling 



