problem. We can also understand why special Joans 

 for sacks scarcely ameliorate the situation, also how 

 much can be anticipated by the manufacture of national 

 sacks, which would call for the organisation of an in- 

 dustry with enormous capital. 



This year, due to the holding up of our stocks, be- 

 .sides the quantity already in the country, it is calculated 

 at the lowest figure that another 80 million sacks are 

 necessary, even allowing for 30 millions being all sound 

 from those that remained over from last year. 



It is calculated that the number of sacks in the coun- 

 try required for bagging our wheat, maize, linseed, bar- 

 ley, oats, rye, rape, alpiste, etc., is in the neighbourhood 

 of 300 million sacks, or approximately fifty thousand 

 kilometres of sacking. 



If w r e allow an average value of 50 cents paper, new 

 .and second hand, we reach a magnificent figure approach- 

 ing 150 millions pesos inverted in sacks alone : as a mat- 

 ter of fact the average price for new sacks,, freight paid, 

 at the "chacra", at the foot of the threshing machine, is 

 much nearer one -peso paper so that the sum in reality 

 exceeds two hundred millions, at the lowest computa- 

 tion. 



SACKS THE HEAVIEST CHARGE ON THE 

 FARMER. 



At their present value, it is a great pity that sacks 

 do not lend themselves to financial manipulations, other- 

 wise we might open a section of the "Caja de Conver- 

 sion", for a paper emission of money with the guarantee 

 of sacks. 



From representing about 20 per cent, of the total 

 <?ost of harvesting and marketing expenses of our crops, 

 sacks have risen to represent nearly half the total. 



The buying of sacks this year is in most cases as 

 great a difficulty for the "ehaearero", as is the selling 

 of his crop at the price stipulated by the Government 

 for export. 



With wheat selling at $6 the "fanega", as it is all 

 over the country, the sacks are eating off as much as the 

 whole of the harvesting operations put together, and 

 swallowing a third of the total profit without taking 

 into account the trouble and worry they are occasioning. 



In normal times the necessity of buying sacks adds 

 one quarter to the cost of harvesting, and this when 

 *acks cost from 25 to 40 cents : let sacks but cost 25 cents 

 which is computed the lowest possible price they can be 



