Report of the Federal Trade Commission on Methods and Operations of Grain Exporters, Volume 1

United States. Federal Trade Commission

U.S. Government Printing Office, 1922 - Grain trade

Contents

• Estimated worlds production of wheat and the quantity and propor: 1
• ΧΙ: 3
• Quantity of rye imported by the principal importing countries: 7
• World supply of oats__: 11
• Total value of domestic exports and of breadstuffs with index num: 13
• Proportion of grain exported__: 17
• Decontrol in Europe: 22
• EXPORT BUSINESS AND METHODS OF FOREIGN BUYERS: 29
• Quantity of wheat exported from the United States by American: 30
• Handling grain abroad_: 38
• Companies whose exportation of wheat in 1921 amounted for each: 42
• GrayRosenbaum Grain: 44
• The HallBaker grain companies: 50
• Summarization: 56
• Principal grainexporting companies American owned to the extent: 57
• Shaffer Grain: 62
• Nature of export business_: 65
• Quantity and cost of grain exported by five American branches: 72
• Sales realization cost of sales and net profit per bushel for wheat: 80
• Sales realization cost of sales and net profit per bushel for barley: 86
• THE UNITED STATES GRAIN CORPORATION: 93
• Prices established by the Government for No 1 wheat per bushel: 96
• Sales of barley corn oats and rye by the coarse grain department: 102
• Balance sheets of the United States Grain Corporation: 108
• APPENDIX TABLES: 115
• 58: 116
• Domestic exports of principal grains by important ports or customs: 120
• CONTENTS: 127
• Acknowledgment: 127
• Summary: 127
• SCOPE OF VOLUME II: 1
• Estimated world production of oats by principal producing coun: 4
• Average daily prices of No 2 cash wheat: 11
• Monthly average prices of No 2 wheat in Chicago and good average wheat: 142
• Monthly average prices of contract or export grades of wheat rye corn oats: 154
• Purchasing power of a bushel of wheat export grade at Chicago in: 163
• Monthly farm prices of wheat per bushel for the principal wheat States: 170
• Lag between the date of purchase and the date of delivery by vessel: 170
• APPENDIX TABLES: 174
• Range of transportation costs to New York City in cents per bushel: 177
• Average gross and net margin in cents per bushel for fobbers in 1920: 184
• Capacity in bushels of grain elevators at 23 terminal markets and: 192
• Result of mixing operations of two wheat exporting concerns at a: 198
• Daily average price of No 2 cash wheat at Chicago January 1 1920 to: 207
• Daily position of selected groups of speculators and grain merchants mostly: 215
• Comparison of net position of certain speculators and grain merchants: 224
• Daily position of a selected speculative and grain merchandising group: 230
• 8: 231
• Daily position of a selected speculative and grain merchandising group: 236
• Exports of wheat from the United States by principal countries 19051914: 242
• Monthly and annual average prices of rye per bushel on farms with index: 248
• Elevator and other storage facilities for grain at 23 important terminal: 254
• Grain exporters or fobbers who control elevator and other storage facilities: 261

Popular passages

Page 94 - That by reason of the existence of a state of war, it is essential to the national security and defense, for the successful prosecution of the war, and for the support and maintenance of the Army and Navy, to assure an adequate supply and equitable distribution, and to facilitate the movement, of foods, feeds, fuel including fuel oil and natural gas, and fertilizer and fertilizer ingredients, tools, utensils, implements, machinery, and equipment required for the actual production of foods, feeds,...‎

Page 95 - Navy, to assure an adequate supply and equitable distribution, and to facilitate the movement, of foods, feeds, fuel including fuel oil and natural gas, and fertilizer and fertilizer ingredients, tools, utensils, implements, machinery, and equipment required for the actual production of foods, feeds, and fuel, hereafter in this act called necessaries; to prevent, locally or generally, scarcity, monopolization, hoarding, injurious speculation, manipulations, and private controls, affecting^ such supply,...‎

Page 9 - In case any property contracted for future delivery Is not delivered at maturity of contract, the President shall appoint a committee of three from the membership at large, to be approved by the Board of Directors, which committee shall determine as nearly as possible the true commercial value of the commodity in question on the...‎

Page 95 - The guaranteed prices for the several standard grades of wheat for the crop of nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall be based upon number one northern spring or its equivalent at not less than $2 per bushel at the principal interior primary markets. This guaranty shall not be dependent upon the action of the President under the first part of this section, but is hereby made absolute and shall be binding until May first, nineteen hundred and nineteen.‎

Page 175 - ... bill of lading are printed in the classification, but the live-stock contract form does not so appear. The live-stock ratings are stated to be based upon values declared by shippers, not exceeding certain stated values ‎

Page 101 - States against undue enhancement of its liabilities thereunder, he is authorized to buy, or contract for the purchase of, wheat of said crops of nineteen hundred and eighteen and nineteen hundred and nineteen at the places designated for the delivery of the same by the President's proclamations or such other places as he may designate, for cash at the said guaranteed prices and he is authorized thereafter to buy or contract for the purchase of, for cash, or sell, consign, or contract for the sale...‎

Page 113 - That the President is authorized from time to time to purchase, to store, to provide storage facilities for, and to sell for cash at reasonable prices, wheat, flour, meal, beans, and potatoes...‎

Page 161 - Hides and leather products Textile products Fuel and lighting Metals and metal products Building materials Chemicals and drugs...‎

Page 134 - States during the year 1919, and offered for sale before the first day of June, 1920, to such agent or employee of the United States, or other person as may be hereafter designated, at any one of the abovementioned cities, which are hereby declared to be the principal primary markets of the United States, and provided that such producer complies with all...‎

Page 131 - ... need among the whole body of the population, especially the wage earners, that the rising tide of costs shall be stayed and reduced as rapidly as possible consistent with the welfare of the producer; that the Government is at the present time engaged in the great task of reducing and stabilizing costs of other staple commodities; that the wheat of the world is abundant for its needs, even disregarding the stores in Russia, but, because of lack of shipping, and war conditions, the burden of supplying...‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: Report of the Federal Trade Commission on Methods and Operations of Grain Exporters, Volume 1; Report of the Federal Trade Commission on Methods and Operations of Grain Exporters, United States. Federal Trade Commission
• Author: United States. Federal Trade Commission
• Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1922
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Sep 19, 2007