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With a normal harvest this saving would be effected 

 upon : 



Wheat -%oOO,000 tons 



Maize 5,000,000 



Oats 750,000 



Linseed 750,000 



or a total of 10,000,000 tons which at $1.25 would mean 

 a total saving of $12,500,000 m|n. 



Recapitulation: The saving annually by a. complete 

 system of elevators and granaries throughout the cereal 

 regions, taking as a basis a year of fine weather, and with 

 the indicated return of ten million tons of grain, would 

 be: 



Manipulation . . $12,500,000 



Classification and grading .... Wheat 3,500,000 



Classification and grading Oats 750,000 



Classification and grading . . . . Linseed 2,100,000 



Classification and grading Maize 5,000,000 



Total . . .,, 23,850,000 



Sacks ' . . . . 30,000,000 



Total $53,850,000 



This would be the saving in a normal year, apart 

 from extraordinary causes, which last year, converted the 

 maize crop into a perfect disaster. 



The intention is to implant the system of Eleva- 

 tors and Granaries as a public service for agriculture 

 much on the same lines as the railway, but not to trade 

 in grain since the mission of elevators is that of de- 

 pository and manipulator of grain for the good pre- 

 sentation of the products, and to organise it in such 

 a way that the agriculturalist can immediately obtain 

 the Warrants as he remits his lots, taking n lot of five 

 tons as a minimum for example. Government inspec- 

 tion will be invited and the guarantees that the Gov- 

 ernment considers necessary and convenient for the se- 

 curity and defense of the producer compiled with. 



The maximum tariff for the miampulation has been 

 stated, and there now remains to be added that the 

 maximum tariff for storing or depositing will not ex- 

 ceed 116 centavo per sack per day. 



The system of construction proposed will be an 

 iron skeleton and Avails of cement or re-inforced con- 



