DEMURRAGE INFORMATION FOR FARMERS. 
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APPLICATION OF THE RULES. 
These regulations apply, of course, to all shippers alike. None was 
designed to favor any particular industry, as appears to be the case 
in some of the State codes. However, the exclusion of Sunday in 
rule 3 and the provision for weather allowance in rule 8 are possibly 
of greater advantage, on the whole, in rural communities than 
elsewhere. 
The average agreement in rule 9 is of no advantage to the farmer 
for the reason that he is shipping more than he receives. Its aboli- 
tion would decrease car detention and thereby benefit the farmer as 
well as other car users. It is under attack from many quarters on 
the ground that it enables industries to detain unduly inbound cars 
of raw material on credits accrued on outbound cars of finished 
product, which are loaded to fill orders and would be loaded just as 
promptly in the absence of an average agreement. 
EXCEPTIONS TO THE UNIFORM CODE. 
Such are the provisions of the code of National Car Demurrage 
Rules, which are applied on interstate business throughout practically 
the entire United States and on intrastate business in 24 of the 
States. Some few exceptions are made here and there, and attention 
is called to the fact that there is not absolute uniformity in every 
particular in all sections of the country. The principal exceptions 
are noted below. They are for the most part of a minor nature and 
not such as to destroy the generally uniform character of the rules. 
The free time on shipments for transfer to water carriers will vary 
with different railroads, for different commodities, and at different 
ports. Some of the lines, members of the Chicago Demurrage Bureau 
and of the Missouri Valley Demurrage and Storage Bureau, make a 
track storage charge in addition to the demurrage charge. Members 
of the Intermountain Demurrage Bureau, operating in Utah, Nevada, 
and Idaho, except empties placed for loading live stock, allow 96 
hours for unloading ore and concentrates, with no weather allowance, 
and collect $5 per day additional on certain high explosives. The 
Montana Demurrage Bureau allows 72 hours at Butte and East 
Helena for unloading interstate shipments of ore, concentrates, and 
eight other commodities. The Northern Demurrage Bureau, whose 
member lines operate in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South 
Dakota, makes special provisions for the inspection of grain and 
hay. The Pacific Car Demurrage Bureau, with 31 lines operating 
in California, Arizona, and New Mexico as members, exempt private 
cars on private tracks when the cars are used for the transportation 
of commodities which the owners of the cars produce or in which 
they deal, exempts empties for loading five stock, makes no allow- 
ance for weather conditions, allows 24 hours only for the unloading 
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