1873.] 
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Fig. 4.— FLOATING ELEVATOE. 
j; is poured into spouts which convey it into bins 
if it is to be kept separate, or into the grain 
; aisles if it is to be bulked. Here (fig. 9) it re¬ 
mains until run by spouts into the vessels for 
ments of the Western producers. That more 
shipping is necessary to prevent expensive ac¬ 
cumulations at the various Atlantic ports. 
That some improved mode of carrying grain 
spect. In so far as the public, of which they 
are the most important class, are injured by the 
extortions of railroads, they have their remedy 
in influencing the requisite legislation. It 
final shipment. For this cleaning and storage 
a charge of a cent and a half per bushel is made 
for the first ten days, and one-quarter of a cent 
for every ten days thereafter. 
After thus relating the history of the trans- 
whereby it may be ventilated and prevented 
from heating is needed to avoid the present 
costly transfers. Final!}', by means of the com¬ 
pletion of the enlargement of the locks of the 
Erie Canal—the passage of larger boats able to 
is the happiest feature of our social condition 
that no one class can conspire to tyrannize over 
the others, and that public opinion will always 
support the right in its strife against wrong, 
and that when public opinion is aroused it is 
■SIFTING THE GRAIN. 
•THE COARSE SCREEN. 
portation of grain there occur to us the fol¬ 
lowing suggestions. It is abundantly shown 
by the facts here narrated that water carriage 
in bulk is by far the cheapest mode of trans¬ 
portation. That the railroads, as at present 
carry eighteen to twenty thousand bushels of 
grain at a much less proportionate cost per 
bushel—the capacity of this indispensable route 
shall be at least doubled. To secure some or 
all of these improvements in the transportation 
always able to effect such ends as are proper by 
the most legitimate methods. In this way will 
this question be settled; but it must not be for¬ 
gotten that the present state of things has arisen 
from the excessive expansion of popu¬ 
Fig. 8.—WEIGHING HOPPER. 
GRAIN AISLE IN THE ELEVATOR. 
existing, at best are but aids and helps to what 
should be the chief reliance for the removal of 
grain. That a through route devoted entirely 
to heavy traffic is needed to meet the require- 
of grain our attention should at once be turned. 
There is no more legitimate business con¬ 
ceivable than that farmers in their collective 
capacity should work for a reform in this re¬ 
lation in the great West without a correspond¬ 
ing enlargement of the outlets at the East; and 
that these outlets need enlargement to restore 
a wholesome competition between them. 
