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"irim," Mint it leaves our shores on iis una] 
• , |i The cost "f tli is 
voyage depends greatly upon the supply of 
ships. It masl no) b qu< ' 
linn of transportation ends with the arrival nf 
the grain at New Fork, Boston, or any other 
seaport th y, were the canals and 
erery tint thus paid in fr. i_ - the 
price paid to the farmer al elevator 
in th rVest, or adds to the i osl of the loaf pur- 
.1 by the Eoropeu artisan. It is an 
lately necessary cost, and can :i"t be avoided 
any more than the cost of plow iil or 
procuring the seed, lu whatever way it may 
lorn; to the New York (irain VI 
Company, and have a t<'tal capacity "f 
8,000,oo<i b me of them is seen In fig. 
: is a counterpart of nil the rest Bars 
the barges are unloaded, and the grain carried 
up by spouts into the top of the building, 
where i: i- 90TO net) ami siio ; lir-t through a 
IIKG GRAIN AT BlT-TAl 
railroads or their capacity instantly doabled it 
would not help the matter just now in the 
slightest Tin re Is a scarcity of ships. Europe 
want- ISO million bushels of grain or less or 
more before next harvest That quantity would 
5,000 ships of 1,000 ton* each, A very 
little figuring would show that this would re- 
quire Hi ships to be loaded and dispatched 
every day for the next ten months. They arc 
not iu existence just now, or at least are other- 
be reduced, a clear gain is made to the pro- 
ducer, and to effect the desirable reduction is 
as legitimate and proper an object for him to 
strive for as the reduction of the cost of his 
farming operations or of his plows and n ipers, 
and this Item of supply of ships should not lie 
lost sight of in considering this question. For 
want of the necessary ships the grain often 
goes to the elevators to be stored for a time. 
These are situated at what is kuowu as the 
Fig. i. — ON THE ERIE CANAL. 
fine screen (fig. To, where it is freed from dust, 
and afterw coarse screen (fig. 7) 
in which i' d from all larger matt IB 
Here there are recovered various strange arti- 
cles which have been lost by farmers in a man- 
ner that - mod to them mysterious. Some- 
times a watch, B pocket book, hammers, nails, 
boots, shoes, pencils, or other things the absence 
of which the owners vainly try to account for. 
are here discovered. After being cleaned, the 
■"i- '"! ■• There! e, as we understand, 
all the ihlps capable of carrying grain ar. 
gaged up bo Deoerabi r. and wen so even early 
in Bt ptemii - The ti I b - th< high, 
and fourteen pi nee Sterling, or about thirty 
bushel is the cost of transportation 
from How York to Liverpool. Of course. 
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Erie Basin on the Brooklyn shore of the East 
River, where the canal barges are gathered 
after their voyage from Buffalo. These e leva- 
tors have a capacity of 14 million bushels. 
Many vessels are loaded at the elevators, and a 
vast amount of shipping gathers about them in 
the course of a reason. The largest of these 
grain is ran into a weighing hopper (figure 8). 
This is connected with a scale which indicates 
by an index the quantity of bushels run into 
the hopper. When the requin d quantity is 
run in. a cord is pulled by u hich the stream of 
entering grain is stopped ; the bottom of the 
hopper is opened simultaneously, and the grain 
