If freight rates were advanced 10 per cent the cost of the harvester would be increased seventeen and one-half cents.
LESSON III.
Freight Rates and Cooking Utensils.
Next to the harvester the modern kitchen cooking range has added more joys and years to the farmer's life than anything in the cornucopia of modern civilization.
Here is a standard range. It is a thing of beauty as well as a means for cooking everything your mother used to cook and much more.
The freight on a steel range, weighing from 400 to 500 pounds, from Detroit to points in the Mississippi Valley, approximates from $2 to $2.50 per stove on stoves which retail at from $55 to $60 each.
An increase of 10 per cent would add from twenty to twenty-five cents to the cost of the stove, which, divided by the life of the stove, taking the low average of ten years, would add one and one-half to two cents per year to the cost.
On heating stoves the increase would be about one-third less.
LESSON IV.