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tanks, like those at elevators, have been constructed 

 in the fields, for storing grain near at hand. 



621. Local markets are usually the small country 

 railway stations. Sometimes the local buyer is acting 

 as agent of a commission house or milling company at a 

 terminal market. There may be a local elevator which 

 does the business, or a mill may buy wheat for home 



FIG. 171. Interior of Farmers' Union Warehouse, Yuba City, California. 



consumption, shipping the flour. Often the mill has an 

 elevator attached, for storing its own wheat and for 

 surplus grain to be shipped. There are now a consider- 

 able number of farmer's cooperative elevators, and, on 

 the Pacific Coast, cooperative warehouses (Fig. 171). 



622. Line elevators are a series of elevators constructed 

 along a line of railway tributary to a large grain center, 

 and under the control of a single grain commission firm 

 or other corporation. Occasionally they are owned by 



