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h rough the car door, men with hooks place the bales at either end 
f the car. On Bhesé are placed a second tier, until the car has 
| been filled. For a 36-foot car, 64 to 72 bales are required, depend- 
ing on the size of the bales. Care is necessary in handling bales 
hot cross-tied to avoid pulling the end wires off, thus injuring their 
“appearance or making reconditioning necessary at destination. 
E. At more extensive shipping points there is usually constructed on 
sidetrack a platform the top of which is even with the floor of 
the car. The broom corn when hauled by farmers is dumped on 
BS he platform and trucked into the cars. This method saves much 
labor and permits loading with less damage to the bales. Where 
| warehouses are available, the bales are weighed and tagged when 
-unloaded and are either stored or trucked into the cars from the 
Fic. 5.—Loading cars with broom corn from wagons at country shipping points. 
CHS OF TRAFFIC. 
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While ee general movement from producing to consuming points 
_ is more or less fixed, there are no regular channels through which 
' the broom corn of any particular crop may be expected to move, 
_ the destination depending entirely on who purchases it. For ex- 
~ ample, a firm in the East may want annually 100 cars of a certain kind 
e of brush, One season it may have been obtained in Illinois while the 
- next year Oklahoma may have produced the kind desired, or per- 
_ haps it could be obtained from the Rio Grande Valley to bettas ad- 
_ vantage. Again, certain large contracts for brooms may have been 
secured by firms in Chicago one year and in Baltimore the next. 
Thus it is seen that the movement may be entirely different from 
_~year to year. 
