Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-09-21
WAREHOUSE REGULATIONS

= nat the government Is going TO
enforce TO the letter the new food
law recently passed by Congress is
evident by the notices now being re-
ceived by the grain men of this sec
ton. From the United States food
administration at Washington, u. c.,
come the following instructions.
10 Elevators and Warehouses
I'VE are advised that you control
the operation of country elevators
We have sent direct to each country
elevator request for certain in
formation and form of application
for license to operate, as required by
the Presidents proclamation of Au-
gust IA. We have advised each
county elevator that if it is part
of line of elevators it may forward
its blanks to the head office; so you
may assume your own constituent
elevators will forward their particu-
lar blanks to you.
In the meantime we enclose you
sufficient blanks so that you may ap-
ply for license for each individual
elevator making separate applica-
ton and report for each
Application for license should be
made Immediately to the United
States food administration, Wash
ington, d. c., and if your formal
license is not received by you before
the date set for such requirement,
September /, 1917, and if your for
NAL application has been made, you
may operate on the assumption that
your license application has been APP
proved and the license is in the pro-
cess Of issuing, unless you are ad-
vised to the contrary.
The regulation now governing the
license for elevators require: a. Such
forms OF report as the food admins
tration may desire; OBJ that trade
practices be fair and reasonable; Co
that facilities for storage be not
granted to others than the food ad-
ministration or its agents for a per-
iod longer than 80 days, in respect to
wheat and rye.
We suggest that elevators issu-
ing storage tickets or warehouse re-
ceipts should add in addition to the
other customary provisions of such,
the following: 1t is agreed that if
the grain represented by this receipt
shall remain in storage beyond the
period Of 80 days after date hereof
the undersigned warehouseman is
authorized to sell the same or to
ship the same to the nearest terminal
market for sale for the best price OBJ
tainabie, and shall pay over the pro-
ceeds to the holder of this receipt,
less lawful storage and other
charges.
You will readily see that you will
need some such provision in the
terms of the storage ticket or ware
house receipt.
You will note by form OF weekly
report enclosed herein that we ask
you on behalf Of each of your sep
arate elevators to send us for each
elevator detailed information, as
shown on this form of report We
u ly n 70 ho
tember /, 1917, starting with the
amount in store in each elevator as
of August 5, 1917. In making your
weekly reports to us please make up
such reports so as to reach our
agency not later than Thursday, fol-
lowing the Saturday for which the
reports are dated. If any of your ele-
vator details are missing at that
time please make an estimated re-
port for such missing elevators,
sending a corrected report marked
corrected with the following weeks
report.
For the present we have CLASH
fled elevators and mills in certain
states to report to agencies which we
have designated; such designation
for the present being on state lines.
This classification is shown on the
inserted slip, and you are asked to
forward the reports for each of your
elevators in certain states to the Of
flee as shown in the classification
slip. This may mean that part of
your elevators report to one agency
and part to another for the present.
ut is quite possible that the food
administration, or some agency of it,
may shortly approach you for vol
untary agreement by which you will
retain grain in your house upon pay
ment of fair storage and other
charges, and forward such grain by
direction of the food administration
If this seems necessary, in order to