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belt conveyer carries it to the top of a bin and 

 discharges it. The team used in pulling the load 

 from the field is hitched to a small horse power 

 and thus serves to operate the unloading ma- 

 chinery. 



A few farmers have built granaries arranged 

 with overhead driveways so that the load can be 

 driven directly over the bin and there dumped. 

 Such equipment adds so much to the cost that it 

 is not ordinarily considered profitable. 



In general, manual labor prevails for unloading 

 into farm granaries. Power plants and elevated 

 driveways are, in most cases, considered too ex- 

 pensive to be profitable. But there is a strong 

 tendency at this time toward the use of mechanical 

 unloaders in the Central states. 



Good Roads in Relation to Farm Storage. - A 

 matter of vital relation to farm storage is the 

 condition of the roads to the local market. If 

 the roads are good at threshing time, many farm- 

 ers will sell at once rather than store at home and 

 take chances on finding roads in bad shape when 

 later they wish to sell. On the other hand, when 

 roads are poor at threshing time, home storage is 

 thereby encouraged. This is an especially marked 

 control, since a large part of the wheat-producing 

 section of our country is almost entirely without 

 macadamized roadways ; and, in much of this 

 region, but little attention has been given to 



