4 BULLETIN •9.37, U. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRTCtJLTURE. 
MARKETING CONDITIONS. 
In the actual physical handling of grain the bulk handling 
method prevails in Canada, as it does in the middle western section 
of the United States. But in the method of marketing on the part 
of the individual growers there is a difference in practice. In the 
Middle Western States the local farmers' elevator is usually con- 
fined in its activities to buying and selling the grain of its member- 
patrons and others, and its principal source of revenue is in the 
profits made upon resale. Comparatively few growers ship direct 
to comm.ission firms in the terminal markets, and even the practice 
of storing grain for farmers by the local elevators is being discour- 
aged. In Canada, on the other hand, the grower has a choice between 
several methods of marketing his grain. 
(1) He may deliver his grain to the local elevator, and sell it at 
the current price paid by the elevator in the same manner that most 
of the country grain is sold in the Middle Western States, in which 
case it is designated as " street grain," and the prices which are paid 
for grain sold in this manner are called " street prices." 
(2) He may have his grain stored in a special bin, the identity 
of the grain being preserved, and later he may have it loaded into 
cars for direct shipment. In this case he p^js to the elevator com- 
pany merely its charge for storage and loading. After the grain 
is loaded into the car, and before it is shipped, he may sell it to the 
elevator company with which he special-binned it or he may sell it 
to any other company or track buyer, in which case it is referred to 
as " track grain," and the prices paid for this kind of grain are 
called " track prices " ; or he may ship to the terminal market, there 
to be sold on consignment either by the same elevator company, pro- 
viding it is engaged in the commission business, or by some other 
commission firm. 
(3) He may have his grain placed in store in the local elevator 
with other grain of like kind and grade, which is called " grade 
storage," and at some time in the future he may sell it as " street 
grain " ; he may have an equivalent number of bushels loaded into 
a car, and there sold as " track grain " ; or he may ship on his own 
individual account to the terminal market. 
(4) He may load his grain directly into the car, utilizing the 
loading platforms provided by the railroad companies for that pur- 
pose, and sell it as track grain or consign it direct to some commis- 
sion firm in the terminal market. 
(5) If upon arrival in the terminal market of grain shipped for 
the account of a grower the grower elects not to sell, he may under 
certain conditions have the car ordered to a public terminal elevator 
for further storage. Direct shipment privileges, of course, are lim- 
ited to carload quantities. 
