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Show WHY WHEAT GOES TO LIVERPOOL WABhlngton, Nov 3. Why Pacific coast farmers ship their surplus grain to Europe rather than to the market centers of tho Mississippi valley is discussed in a bulletin just Issued by the department of agriculture. Freight charges for tho 18,000-mile voyage from Spokane or Walla Walla to Liverpool, the bulletin points out, range from 25 to 30 cents a bushel for wheat while the 2,000-mile haul from the same points to Chicago is 34.5 cents a bushel. Tho former rates include railroad rates to Portland or Puget Sound, ocean rates and marlno Insurance. While it costs the farmer from twenty-fivo centu per ton-mile to haul his wheat to the shipping point, tho ocean haul to England by wny of Capo Horn is only from two to throe-hundredths throe-hundredths of onecent per ton-mile. During tho five years, from 1906 to 1910, inclusive, there was exported from the Pacific coast an average of 29,000 000 bushels a year. oo . |