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BULLETIN" 1401, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
PRICE QUOTATIONS * 
The record of current prices and conditions prevailing in the 
peanut belt is based on telegrams received from leading cleaners, 
shellers, crushers, and brokers in the Virginia-North Carolina section, 
the Southeast, and the Southwest, -giving the prices paid growers 
for farmers' grade peanuts, and quotations and selling prices f. o. b. 
shipping points for the shelled or cleaned product. City brokers 
in the North cooperate in the furnishing of southern quotations. 
F. o. b. prices of crude peanut oil, and of peanut meal and cake, are 
frequently obtained and published. In the larger city markets, 
salaried representatives of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 
without any financial interest in the goods involved, visit each week 
the leading brokers and handlers of peanuts and obtain a record of 
current prices and market conditions. Composite telegrams covering 
the situation in each market are forwarded promptly to Washington 
DISTRIBUTION OF PEANUT SHIPMENTS FROM SOUTHWESTERN SECTION 
BY CAR LOT EQUIVALENTS. CROP YEAR, 1923 -24 
Fig. 23. — Illinois takes more southwestern peanuts than any other one State 
to be edited and included in the news sheet. Prices of Chinese and 
other peanuts in British markets are taken from commercial sources 
and appear almost weekly in the report. Occasionally prices of pea- 
nuts and peanut oil f. o. b. Chinese ports are obtained and published. 
REPORTS OF MOVEMENT 
Arrangements are in effect whereby the local agents of the different 
railroads and boat lines at points in the peanut belt at which cleaning, 
shelling, or crushing plants are located, report each week the number 
of pounds of shelled and unshelled peanuts and peanut oil moving 
out of their stations. These shipment statistics, which are tabulated 
and published each week, form the basis for the tabulated destinations 
by States beginning on page 94. A graphic summary of the average 
monthly movement of cleaned and shelled peanuts is seen in Figure 25. 
