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XI. 



HARVESTING AND STORAGE 



conditions is already felt to be a serious one. 

 is the best time for hauling the crop to the station, for the 

 weather is dry, the roads are good, and the farmer has more 

 time and more transport and labour available than at other 

 seasons of the year. Moreover when the crop is once at the 

 station it can be railed more promptly should a temporary 



Fig. 190. — Basuto " sesco " of woven grass, for storing grain. (Courtesy 

 of the Director, MacGregor Memorial Museum, Kimberley.) 



rise in the market require immediate delivery. The large 

 grower can provide his own store at the station, but for the 

 small producer it may not be worth while to do so. The 

 Bloemfontein Maize Conference of 1910, therefore, recom- 

 mended that the Government be requested to erect covered 

 storehouses at the chief inland grain exporting railway stations 



