The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-15
A GRAIN MARKET
BUREAU IS FORMED
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
TO FURNISH INFORMATION
ON STOCKS AND PRICES.

IN OTu0T W HdNC ISldClNSly dCCu-
rate information constantly available
during the present international en-
ergency regarding the stocks in deal
ers' hands, and the probable supply
and demand for grain and hay in
all sections of the country, as we'll as
the range of prices at which these
commodities are being bought and
sold in carlot quantities, or their
equivalent, the United States depart
ment of agriculture is arranging to
conduct a bi-weekly market service.
To secure rapid assembling and
dissemination of the information used
in the reports, the country will be di-
vided into several divisions compos-
ed of from three to nine states each.
Reports for each division will be
assembled and estimates issued from
an office located at a central point in
that division. There will be several
men who are familiar with the mark
citing of these crops, stationed at
each division office, whose duty it will
be to assist in securing information
relative to marketing conditions, pre-
pare the material for the bi-weekly
reports and assist wherever possible
in the marketing of these products in
their division.
The information obtained in each
division Office will be forwarded also
to the bureau of markets at Wash
ington, where a corps of specialists
in the marketing of these crops will
make a careful analysis of it for the
purpose of assisting in it's distribu-
ton between divisions wherever nee
essary.
In order to give the reports as To-
cal an application as possible each
state, with the exception of those
which are very small, will be, divid-
ed into several districts. Whenever
possible reports will be itemized for
each district.
Scope of Work
The report at present will include
estimates of stocks of wheat, corn,
oats and hay in dealers hands in
each district; estimates of the amount
of each of these commodities which
will be shipped from stations in each
district during the two weeks follow
ing the date of the report; estimates
of the amount of these commodities
which will be shipped to stations in
each district during the two weeks
following the date of the report; the
range of prices at which certain
grades of these commodities are be-
ing offered for sale for shipment in
carload lots f. o. b. stations in each
district on a given date; the range
Of prices at which similar grades can
be purchased for shipment to these
stations on the same date; and the
lowest price at which certain grades
Of these commodities are being of
fered for sale in carload lots for
prompt shipment from a number of
the large markets from which this
division customarily draws its sup
plies.
The estimates of stocks in dealers
hands probable shipments into sta
tons, and probable shipments from
stations, in each district as whole
will be given in two ways; in actual
amounts expressed in bushels OF
tons, and in percentages of the nor
nal conditions usually prevailing in
the territory at that season of the
year.
In compiling the range of prices,
each correspondent is requested to
give the prevailing carload price in
his own town on the date in ques-
ton. The range given in the depart
ment report shows the highest and
lowest secured from all correspon-
dents in each district. In considering
these price ranges, one should re-
member that freight rates to and
from all points in a district are not
always the same and an apparently
wide range of prices in district is
often due to this condition.
Three Districts in Georgia.
Georgia will be divided into three
districts-the southeastern, the south
western and the northern.
The southwestern division, which