DEMURRAGE INFORMATION FOR FARMERS. 
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TIME ALLOWED FOR FURNISHING CARS. 
Alabama allows from 2 to 10 days, depending on the number of 
cars ordered. Arizona and California allow 48 hours and up, depend- 
ing on the number of cars ordered, and prescribe that orders may- 
no t be placed longer than 15 days in advance. Arkansas allows 6 
days. Colorado and Mississippi allow 5 days. Florida allows 2 
days for fruit and vegetables, 4 days for other commodities. Georgia, 
Missouri, and Virginia allow 4 days. Kansas allows from 3 to 10 
days, depending on the number of cars ordered. Minnesota allows 
48 hours for terminal points and 72 for intermediate points. North 
Dakota allows 72 hours. Oklahoma allows from 48 to 144 hours, 
depending on the number of cars ordered, while Oregon allows from 
5 to 20 days. South Carolina allows 3 days for perishable commodi- 
ties and 4 days for other shipments. South Dakota allows from 3 to 6 
days and Texas from 3 to 8 days, depending on the number of cars 
ordered. Washington allows from 3 to 10 days, depending on the 
number of cars ordered, the place where they are wanted, and whether 
or not the road has daily service at that point, and shorter time is 
given for live stock and perishable freight. 
The States that have gone most into detail in demurrage laws and 
regulations are agricultural States. While the time allowed carriers 
for furnishing cars, as shown above, seems excessive in some instances, 
attention is called to the fact that Florida, South Carolina, and Wash- 
ington have made specific provision fqr agriculture by prescribing 
the shortest possible time within which cars must be furnished to 
move perishable commodities. 
PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO FURNISH CARS. 
In the matter of penalty imposed for failure to furnish cars within 
the prescribed time it is uniformly $1 in all except eight of the 
States. In Texas it is 50 cents per day; in Florida, North Dakota, 
and Oregon it is $2 ; in Arizona and Calif ornia it is $3 ; and in Arkansas 
and Kansas it is $5. 
RESULTS OF "RECIPROCAL DEMURRAGE.' 
The Interstate Commerce Commission holds that it has no authority 
to penalize carriers through " reciprocal demurrage." The imposi- 
tion of such penalties was stoutly resisted by the carriers, but there 
is now no question of the right to impose them and little question of 
the benefits accruing therefrom to shippers. While it may not be 
possible or advisable for carriers to provide sufficient equipment for 
the maximum tonnage offered at the busiest season of the year, 
" reciprocal demurrage" has doubtless had the effect of bringing 
about some increase in the supply of cars, and it has at least done 
