The Distribution of Products.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVII, Issue 2952, 15 October 1891, Page 2

The Distribution of Products.

The following passage is from Mr. Edward Atkinson's valuable work on the Distribution of Produots, published in 1885 by Putnam's Sons, New York:— " The equivalent of one man's work on the great farms of Dakota is 5500 bushels of wheat per annum, if tbe crop reach 20 bushels to the acres. Retaining enough for seed, this quantity suffices to make 1000 barrels of flour. It can be carried through the flour-mill and put into barrels, including tbe labor ot making tbe barrel, at tbe equivalent of one other man's labor for one year ; and at tbe ratio of the work done to each man employed upon tbe New York Central Railroad, tbe wheat can be moved from Dakota to a flour-mill in Minnesota, and thence tbe 1000 barrels of flour can be moved to the city of New York, and all the machinery of the farm, the mill, and the railroad can be kept in repair at the equivalent of the labor of two more men ; so that 1000 barrels of flour, tbe annual ration of 1000 people, can be placed in the city of New York from a point 2000 miles distant with the exertion of human labor equivalent to that of only four men, working one year in producing, milling, and moving the wheat. It can there be backed and distributed by the work of three more persons ; so that seven persons serve 1000 with bread."