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must keep to the railway. This department, 

 again, needs grading and manufacturing staffs 

 and storage room. It is quite possible, too, 

 that the cereals may need what the Americans 

 call elevators in a modest form and mills 

 of various kinds for their treatment. In 

 any case the depot must provide itself with 

 feeding stuffs ; and the seed question must 

 receive adequate attention, whether cleaning 

 be done on the spot or not. 



Besides the milling and other machinery 

 necessitated by the operations at the depot, 

 there is a call for such movable engines and 

 implements as are too expensive to be provided 

 upon each separate farm. The threshing 

 machine is the most obvious case, but it will 

 be found, as the work proceeds, that it will 

 be much cheaper for all if some of it be 

 done by district implements. Spraying, steam- 

 ploughing, and the like would be better if 

 carried out on co-operative lines. 



Fertilisers, and the goods of all descriptions 

 which are at the present time kept at the 

 store for the members of an agricultural 

 co-operative society, will necessitate a ware- 

 house. The activities of all such joint pur- 



