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. FREIGHT RATES AND REFRIGERATORS. What are the cold facts about refrigerators? What cold storage is to the whole people, the modern refrigerator is to the individual family. It preserves all things sweet and clean and wholesome. Now the freight on a refrigerator, such as is used by the ordinary family, from Belding, Mich., where they are manufactured in large quantities, to New York is approximately seventy-five cents. An increase of 10 per cent would add _seven and one-half cents_ to the cost of the refrigerator, delivered in New York City. LESSON V. FREIGHT RATES AND HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. Ever since Grand Rapids became the furniture hub of the Union there has been no excuse for any American family being without its antique or modern dining room set. Look at this suite consisting of a solid table, six chairs, sideboard and china closet, etc. It could be bought F. O. B. at Grand Rapids for from $55 to $75, according to the wood and finish. It weighs approximately 750 pounds and the freight from the factory to Chicago would be $1.60. An increase of 10 per cent would add _sixteen cents_ to the cost of all this furniture. LESSON VI. FREIGHT RATES AND A BUSINESS SUIT. Behold this business suit which no one would be ashamed to wear. It might cost anywhere from $10 up to $35, according to the reputation of the tailor or the rent and advertising rates he pays. The freight rate on such a suit of clothes, including hat and shoes, for a distance of 300 miles from any of our large jobbing or distributing centers is approximately _three and one-half cents_. A 10 per cent increase would add a little more than _one-third of one cent_ to the cost of this suit, and it would add no more if it cost $50 or $100. LESSON VII. FREIGHT RATES AND "KING COTTON." "Befo' de wah" cotton was king. Of our exports it still leads all our domestic products, having no second in sight. If the entire cotton crop of the United States was compressed into one bale its value would be about $750,000,000. Of this bale in 1908 the railways got a little "jag" worth according to the Interstate Commerce Commission $12,394,000, or less than 2 per cent. An advance of 10 per cent in rates on cotton could not add more than one-fiftieth of a cent per pound to the price of cotton. LESSON VIII. FREIGHT RATES AND A SACK OF FLOUR. Minneapolis, as all good little school children know, is the seat of the flour industry of the United States.