La Grande evening observer., August 26, 1916, Image 9

SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1916
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
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JEW WAREHOUSE LAW HAS
INTEREST OF FARMER AT HEART
Washington, D. C, Aug. 26. The
central purpose of the U. S. Ware
house Act which became a law on
August 11, 1916, is to establish a
form of warehouse receipt for cotton,
grain, wool, tobacco and flaxseed,
which will make these receipts easily,
and widely negotiate as delivery ord
ers or as collateral for loans and,
therefore, of definite assistance in
financing crops. This purpose the
act tims to attain by licensing and
bonding warehouses under conditions
which will insure the integrity of
their receipts and make these re
ceipts reliable evidence of the con
r ' dition, quality, quantity, and owner
ship of the products named which
may be stored with them.
- The Secretary of Agriculture is giv
en general authority to investigate the
storage, warehousing, classification,
weighing, and certifying of cotton,
wool, grains, tobacco and flaxseed,
and to classify warehouses for which
licenses are applied for or issued, j
A Permissive Statute
He may issue to warehousemen lic
enses for the conduct of warehouses
in which such products may be stored
for interstate or foreign commerce,
and also of warehouses located in
places under the exclusive jurisdiction
of the United States in which such
products may be stored. Persons who
are not warehousemen may also be
licensed, subject to the same require
ments as licensed warehousemen, to
accept such products for storage in
warehouses owned, operated or leased
by any state. Licenses may be issued
for periods not exceeding one year,
and are renewable upon showing sat
isfactory to the Secretary of Agricul
ture. A fee not exceeding $2.00 may
be charged for each license or re
newal, and, in addition, a reasonable
fee for each examination or inspec
tion of a warehouse made upon ap
plication of the warehouseman. It
is not, however, compulsory that any
warehouseman be licensed by the Sec
retary of Agriculture. The system is
wholly permissive.
Ejvery applicant for a license as a
warehouseman must agree to comply
with the Act and the rules and regu
lations prescribed under it. He must
give a bond, with other than personal
surety, to secure the performance of
his obligations as a warehouseman
under the laws of the place in which
the warehouse is conducted, under his
contract with his depositors, and un
der the United States warehouse Act.
The right is given to any person in
jured through its breach to sue in his
own name on the bond for any dam
ages sustained by him. When such
bond has been given, the warehouse
may be designated as bonded under
the United States Warehouse Act.
Inspection of Licensed Warehouses
The Secretary of Agriculture is au
thorized to inspect warehouses lic
ensed or for which licenses ire' ap
plied for; to determine whether they
are suitable for the proper storage of
agricultural products; to prescribe the
duties of licensed warehousemen with
respect to their care of, and responsi
bility for, agricultural products; and
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to examine agricultural products
stored in licensed warehouses. De
posits of agricultural products in such
warehouses are made subject to the
Act and the rules and regulations un
der it.
Duties of Warehousemen
Licensed warehousemen are not per
mitted to discriminate between per
sons desiring to store agricultural
products in their warehouses. All
agricultural products, except fungible
products (such as grain and the like),
of the same kind and grade, for which
separate receipts are issued, must be
so kept that they may be separately
identified and redelivered to the de
positor. Warehousemen may mix
grain and other fungible products, or
dinarilly mixed in storage, when they
are of the same kind and grade and
are delivered from the same mass,
but may not mix such products when ;
they are of different grades. n
Warehouse Receipts j
all agricultural products stored in
licensed warehouses, but. only when
such products are actually stored at t
the time of the issuance of the re- i
ceipts. Additional or further receipts '
for the same products may only . be
issued in place of lost or destroyed re- i
ceipts, and tnen only under specified
conditions.
The Act enumerates certain facts
which must be stated in all receipts
issued by licensed warehousemen.
They must show (a) the location of
the warehouse, (b) the date of issu
ance, (c) the consecutive number, (d)
whether the. products will be deliv
ered to the bearer, to a specified per
son, or to a specified person or his
order, (e) the rate of storage charges,
(f ) a description of the product stored,
including the quantity or weight, (g)
the grade or other class, according to
the official standards of the United
States for such products, unless there
be no such standard, in which event
it must be stated according to some
recognized standard or according to
rules and regulations prescribed by
the Secretary of Agriculture, (h) that
they are issued subject to the Uni
ted States Warehouse Act and the
rules and regulations under it, (i) own
ership, if any, of the products by the
warehouseman (j) any Mien claimed
by the warehouseman for advance
made or liabilities incurred, (k) any
other facts required by the Secre
tary of Agriculture, (1) the signature
of the warehouseman, which may be
made by his authorized agent. Un
less otherwise required by the law of
the State in which the warehouse is
located, the grade may be omitted at
the request of depositors, except in
case of fungible agricultural products,
if the receipts clearly show that they
are not negotiable.
Licensed Classifiers and Weighers
The Secretary of Agriculture may
license competent persons to classify
and weigh agricultural products
stored in licensed warehouses, and to
certify the classification or weight of
the products. Such licenses may be
suspended or revoked at any time if
the licensee fails to perform his du
ties, properly. All grain, flaxseed and
other fungible products stored for in
terstate or foreign commerce in lic
ensed warehouses must be inspected
and graded by persons licensed for
the purpose. Authority is given to
establish official standards for the
agricultural products named in the
Act, and standards established under
any other act of Congress are adopted
for the purpose of the Warehouse Act.
Delivery of Products
Upon demand of depositors or hold
ers of recipts, licensed warehousemen,
in the absence of some lawful excuse,
must deliver products stored without
unnecessary delay. The demand for
delivery must be accompanied with
an offer to satisfy the warehouse
man's lien, to surrender the receipt,
if negotiable, properly endorsed, and,
when requested by the warehouseman,
to sign, an acknowledgment of the
receipt of the product redelivered. Up
on the redelivery of the products for
wiiitn given, au receipts returned
must be canceled.
. Records and Reports
Licensed warehousemen are requir
ed to keep in safe places complete and
correct records of all agricultural
products stored and withdrawn, and of
receipts issued, returned, and can
celed. They must also make detailed
reports to the Secretary of Agricul
ture as often as required. Their
books, records. DaDers and accounts
are subject to examination bv the De
partment or Agriculture. I
Revocation of Licenses
The Secretary of Agriculture is re
quired to publish the names, locations,
and addresses of all warehouses and
persons licensed under the Act, with
lists of all licenses revoked and the
causes of termination. He may pub
lish his findings whenever he. deter
mines that a licensed warehouseman
is not performing fully his duties un
der the Act. He may suspend or re-
voKe any license it the licensee fails
to comply with the Act or the rules
and regulations. He may also sus
pend or revoke any license issued to
a warehouseman if unreasonable and
exorbitant charges have been made
for services rendered.
The Act expressly provides that
nothing contained in it shall be con
strued to interfere with state laws
relating to warehouses, warehouse
men, weighers, graders and classi
fiers, or with similar Federal laws.
On the contrary, the Secretary of Ag
riculture is authorized to cooperate
with officials charged with the en
forcement of such state laws in order
to carry out the provisions of the Uni
ted States Warehouse Act.
Penalties
Punishment by fine or imprison
ment or both may be imposed on any
person who counterfeits, forges, or
uses without proper authority any lic
ense issued under the Act, or who is
sues or utters a false or fraudulent
receipt or certificate, or who uses a
name or description conveying the im
pression that a warehouse is desig
nated as bonded under the Act unless
the bond has actually been filed and
approved or the license issued remains
unsuspended and unrevoked.
An appropriation of $50,00 is made
for carrying out the provisions of the
Act. The necessary rules and regula
tions are now in course of prepara
tion, and will be published and wide
ly distributed at the earliest practic
able date.
Objects of the Act
Warehouse legislation, in its bear
ing upon the marketing and distribu
tion of farm products, was. discussed
by the Secretary of Agriculture in his
annual report for 1915, in which he
said:
"Investigations conducted by the of
fice of markets and rural organization
indicate that there is serious need of
warehouse legislation. It would seem
that the rribst desirable action on the
part of the States would be the pass
age o flaws which would guarantee
the integrity of warehouse receipts.
These laws should be uniform, so that
the conditions governing such receipts
may be the same throughout the coun
try, thereby greatly increasing tneir
availability as collateral for loans at
alstant tanJcing'Ce'htefsr" The uniform
warehouse receipts act is now in force
in 31 States.
"In -addition- tO"the-4egislation that
has been or may be enacted by the
States, it is believed that the enact
ment of a Federal Warehouse law
would be of great benefit. The gener
al interest in the subject is well shown
by the inquiries the department con
stantly is receiving. In fact, many
warehousemen, under the misappre
hension that a bill on the subject con
sidered by the last Congress actually
had been passed, have asked the de
partment to give them information as
to how to comply with it. The pro
posed measure, which is permissive in
character, would enable the Depart
ment of Agricultural to license bond
ed warehouses in the various states.
It would promote the better storing
of farm products, increase the desira
bility of receipts as collateral for
loans, and therefore would be of de
finite assistance in financing crops. A
Federal statute on the subject also
would promote the standardizing of
storages, of warehouse receipts, and
of marketing processes.
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A large egg yieid is not possible
unless animal food of somJ kind is fed.
Green cut bone is the best egg stimu
lant that can be fed. Bone can be
purchased from butchers and slaugh
tering houses at a very reasonable
figure, and in cool weather, when
kept in a cool place, will keep for sev
eral weeks. The fact that no bone cut
ter is on the place ought .not deter the
fairmer from feeding bono to his hens.
A sharp hatchet and a block will soon,
reduce the softer bones, ribs, verte
brae, etc., to the proper size.
In feeding bone, one should feed
only a small quantity at first and
gradually increase the quantity as the
hens" become accustomed to the food.
When accustomed to the food the daily
allowance of bone for each hen should
be about two ounces. If,. however, the
hens were fed this quantity in the be
ginning serious bowel trouble would
likely result.
Cut bone should be1 fed in the wet
mash, since, if it is fed as one of the
feeds of the day, some of the hens
will over-eat of the bone, while others
will be crowded away from the feed
trough and not get sufficient for their
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