DEMURRAGE INFORMATION FOR FARMERS. 
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for reconsigning, for surrender of bill of lading or payment of freight 
charges when cars are for delivery to or forwarding by a connecting 
line, for inspection and grading in transit, for completion of load or 
for partial unloading in transit, and for customs entry and govern- 
ment inspection of shipments in- bond. Cars containing freight for 
transshipment by water will be allowed such time as the individual 
tariffs of the roads interested permit. 
COMPUTING TIME. 
Rule 3 excludes Sundays and holidays in the computation of time 
and provides that the following Monday shall be excluded when a 
holiday falls on Sunday. Free time begins to run from the first 7 
a. m. after empty cars are placed for loading, after notice of arrival of 
cars held for orders, after placement and notice of arrival of cars for 
unloading on public-delivery tracks, and after actual or constructive 
placement of cars for unloading on other than public-delivery tracks. 
On loaded cars for industrial plants performing their own switching 
service, time is computed from the first 7 a. m. after actual or con- 
structive placement on the interchange track until their return thereto 
by the industry. The underlying idea is that time shall be computed 
from the first 7 a. m. after placement and notice. 
NOTIFICATION. 
Rule 4 provides that notice shall be given the consignee within 24 
hours after the arrival of cars. Notice shall be in writing or as other- 
wise agreed upon between the carrier and consignee, and shall include 
such information as point of shpiment, car number and initials, con- 
tents, and, if shipment has been transferred en route, number and 
initials of the original car. Delivery of cars on private tracks or 
industrial interchange tracks constitutes notification to consignees 
taking delivery on such tracks. 
PLACING CARS FOR UNLOADING. 
Rule 5 defines " constructive placement" and its enforcement 
breaks up the discrimination formerly practiced in favor of industries 
doing their own switching and of those consignees who sought delay 
and more time by ordering cars to tracks that they knew were occu- 
pied. Cars for industries doing their own switching will be consid- 
ered as delivered, and the free time will begin to run when they are 
tendered the industry and written notice served to that effect, even 
though the industry may refuse or fail or be unable to remove them 
from the interchange track. The former practice of free time begin- 
ning to run only after the industry has announced its readiness to 
receive the cars is abolished. When, from causes beyond the car- 
rier's control, cars can not be placed on tracks designated by con- 
signees they will be placed on the nearest available track and written 
notice served to that effect. 
