THE HARVESTING OF THE CANE. 



or round the curve wheels, the impetus derived from the speed of the rope 

 being sufficient for the purpose of enabling the carriers to free themselves 

 automatically from the rope." 



Views of this scheme are shown in Fig. 93, and a view of the cradle in 

 Fig. 94. 



FIG. 94. 



The cost of this system to transpurt 10 tons of cane per hour is roughly 

 150 1 per mile, f.o.b., European ports. 



FIG. 95. 



In some cases the configuration of the land will allow of a gravity 

 system ; in the simplest arrangement the loaded cradles run down a fixed 

 rope and are afterwards packed back to the fields; in another system the 

 descending load works an endless rope which also carries back the empty 

 cradles. 



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