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market ; 



Safe deposit pending sale ; 



Facilities for the disposal of the crop either by the 

 farmer or acopiador or land owner at the most favour- 

 able moment, or for negotiating advances under the war- 

 rant and finally: 



Reduced costs with greater facilities for handling 

 and moving the grain from, the railway station to the 

 port. 



Besides these advantages, in the case of the Argen- 

 tine Republic, there are other very great bene&fe which 

 an improvement in the methods of disposing or sale of 

 the harvest would add, extraordinary economies which 

 the use of elevators would permit and which under the 

 present mode of procedure are unable to be rf f ected . 



ECONOMIES. 



These are: 



Minimising the losses between harvesting and deli- 

 verir% the crop to the buyers; losses in quantity and 

 quality; those occasioned by the breaking of bags and 

 such as are occasioned by storms, wettings, exposure or 

 all weathers, when stored out in the open, depreciation, 

 etc., which it is calculated run into hundreds of millions 

 of pesos annually. 



Economies in capital outlay for sacks, grain stored 

 in bulk, transported in bulk by the railways, and shipped 

 away in bulk, economies which would exceed hundreds 

 of millions annually, and be doubly desirous since the 

 money for sacks goes out of the country, as none of the 

 fibre in making sacks is grown in the land, although it 

 could be. 



Better prices for the cereals due to the classification 

 and preparation for the markets - - the difference be- 

 tween putting a rough article up for sale against a clean 

 sound classified article represents several hundreds of 

 millions of pesos carelessly thrown away. 



Lessened costs in handling grain due to the greater 

 facilities whic helevators provide, and which advantage 

 would be felt alike by the railway companies and their 

 clients, so that a Deduction in railway freights is pos- 

 sible . 



Reduced freights for shipping abroad, owing to the 

 regulation of our exports, which would be made over an 

 extended period instead of in hurried spasms. 



And last but not least, the facilities for rural credits, 

 for the development of Warrant-credit, business, under 



