Author: Lewis Publishing Company
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781230002620
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... grain business accounts in a large measure for the great volume of business transacted in Fort 'Worth, RALSTON Punma COMPANY The Ralston Purina Company of Texas, known as the Purina Mills, and operating a large plant in Fort 'orth, is a subsidiary company of the Ralston Purina Company of St. Louis, Mo., which has branch mills at East St. Louis, Ill., Nashville, Tenn., and Buffalo, N. Y. This corporation is the largest factor in the livestock feed business in the world: capitalized for $9,000,000 and doing a $26,000,000 yearly business. The Fort Worth Mill was built in 1917 to keep pace with the rapid agricultural department and expansion in Texas. The plant, which represents an investment of over half a million dollars, is the most modem and best equipped feed mill in America. It consists of a six-story mill, a ten-story grain elevator and two cisterns for molasses, with a capacity of 75,000 gallons each, or a total of twenty tank cars. The building is fire-proof and constructed on the unit basis so that it may be enlarged from time to time to handle several times the large original tonnage output. The spout from the public elevator of the Fort Worth Elevators Company handles 1,500 bushels of grain an hour. The capacity of the mill is fifty-five hundred 100 pound bags of Checkerboard Chows per day, which can be loaded in seven freight cars at the same time. The company maintains a research department, which keeps in touch with the feeding problems in Texas and carries out special experiments and research work. Educational literature is distributed throughout the state, keeping the feeders in touch with all the latest scientific developments in the farm stock industry. Fourteen salesmen cover Texas, and the number is being increased...