Production Defined, Productive Activities -- Change of Form, Change of Place, Change of Time. Nature and Labor. Capital -- Stored up Labor. Marketing -- Wholesaling and Retailing. Grain Exchanges; Defined, Object, Commission Merchant, Dealing in Futures -- Hedging. Cooperative Marketing: Advantages. Local Grain Merchant -- Financing Movement of Crops. Elements Entering into the Cost of Marketing. Transportation from Farm to Local Market. Cost of Production, Effect of Good Roads upon, Intensive Farming, Fruit Farming, Long Haul Transportation. Stock Marketing: Changing Character of Stock Raising, Distance of Economic Hauling by Team and by Truck, Effect of Truck Hauling on Number of Hogs Marketed. Seasonal Effect. Stock Merchant -- Local, Shrinkage, Dairying. Poultry. Forestry: Logging and Lumbering, Forest Management, Use of Truck and Trailer, At Saw Mill, Log Loader, in Lumber Yards, Mining. Factory Products. From Factory to Retailer. Terminal Charges Eliminated. Construction. CHAPTER X FINANCING HIGHWAYS AND HIGHWAY TRANSPORTATION LINES 306 Origin and Reasons for Road Work. Working out Road Tax Abolished. Private Financing, Public Financing. Taxation: Tax Defined, Classified. Direct Taxes -- Levied Uniformly. Indirect Taxes: Defined, Classes of, Special Taxes, How Levied, Benefits Decrease with Distance, Petitioning Influence -- Curve of, Concrete Illustration. Zone Weights: How Determined, Plots and Tables. Frontage: Defined, Calculation, Illustrative Example. Unequal Zones and Irregular Lots -- Concrete Illustration. Another Method of Apportioning Assessments. Rule for Assessment. Miscellaneous Sources of Revenue: Public Service Corporations, Bus and Truck Lines, Municipal Sale of Water, Gas, Electricity, Ice, Coal. Public Ownership of Transportation and other Necessary Utilities. Bonds: Sinking Fund, Serial, Annuity, Comparison of Costs. Term of Bonds. Stocks and Bonds. National and State Aid. Present Status of Federal Aid. Matching Federal Aid Dollars. Financing Highway Transportation: Individual, Partnership, Corporation. Public Ownership -- When Advisable. CHAPTER XI HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS AND THEIR MITIGATION 351