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the increase in agriculture attained large proportions. 

 tin 1 <|iiestion \vas once more revived. 



Year in and and year out the discussion still eon 

 tiiuies hut it is as though some extraordinary chasm 

 yawned het \veen theory and practice, for advance the 

 matter cannot . It is project after project, but never any 

 den' n i t e 'real isations . 



The only reasonable explanations are that there are 

 some powerful interests at play which block the way for 

 elevators, although, curiously, no one has ever come for- 

 ward to assume the responsibility for this extraordinary 

 opposition which twenty years of strenuous endeavour 

 has been unable to overcome. 



In the meantime thousands and thousands have been 

 built throughout the world. The construction of eleva- 

 tors or grain granaries has spread all over the world, 

 from the home of their first conception as efficient modern 

 aid* to modern agriculture, the United States and Ca- 

 nada they have been adopted by every grain growing 

 country engaged in extensive production for export. 

 Rumania, Russia, India, New Zealand, Australia, sAl one 

 after the other have recognised their utility and adopted 

 them as a plank in the schemes of extensive agricultural 

 production and their rural prosperity has been synonym- 

 ous with the progress in the construction of elevators, 

 or grain granaries. 



What are elevators? What advantages do they of- 

 fer? What are the chief obstacles towards their im- 

 plantation here? 



WHAT ELEVATORS ARE. 



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Elevators are specially constructed deposits for the 

 .housing of cereals; deposits, moreover, fitted up with 

 machinery for drying, cleaning, grading, and facile hand- 

 ling of grain. 



Buildings where the farmer can deposit his crop 

 pending the day of sale or delivery. 



Places for the safe deposit of that part of the crop 

 011 which money has been lent the farmer, that is, for the 

 security of the debts contracted, whether loans under the 

 old customary contracts, under the Prenda Agraria, 

 under the warant, or as a debt for rent for the part of 

 the harvest which corresponds to the owners of the land . 



The advantages which elevators offer are : 



Sound storage at a minimum cost,* 



Cleaning and Drying; 



Classification and Preparation of the grain for the 



