1 Jury, 1902.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 19° 
country have not too much storage room. It would be a great advantage to 
them were they able to place itin an elevator till prices suited, rather than to 
have to rush it on the market. 5. 
Mr. W. Norr (Biggenden) : It appears that all these elevators are built 
on the bin system, and | would like to know if the grain is stored in one of 
the bins for any length of time whether it can be protected from weevils. Is 
wheat liable to the attacks of insect pests when stored in elevators ? 
Mr. J. J. Danten (Pittsworth) said the inauguration of elevators would be a 
step in the right direction, but he also saw a difficulty in the carriage of the 
wheat from the farms several miles from the elevators. He also spoke of the 
difficulty of getting the grain from the harvesters to the bins at the railway 
station, and asked how farmers who grow a small quantity of wheat could 
utilise the bins. Could a farmer who has only a few bags of wheat occupy a 
bin for a whole season? We grow a great variety of wheats. A farmer may 
grow Talavera, or Pearl, or Allora Spring; would he be allowed to occupy a 
separate bin for each variety ? 
Mr. W. D. Lame (Yangan): I am a wheat-grower, and have had consider- 
able experience in the handling of wheat, which experience has led me to the 
belief that the elevator system would be an admirable one for either maize, 
wheat, or barley. Instead of:bins, however, I would favour the bulk system. 
If we had an expert in charge of the elevator he would classify the grain and 
bulk it accordingly. I agree with what Mr. Thynne has told you about the 
value and use of a certificate issued to the grower that he held so many 
bushels of wheat of such and such a quality. One advantage of the elevator 
system is the doing away with a lot of heavy manual labour, and I am sure that 
every farmer and farmer's assistant would take more interest in his work if 
there was not so much heavy toil associated with some forms of it, such as is 
entailed, for instance, in the handling of grain. With respect to the freedom 
or otherwise from weevil and other vermin of grain stored in elevators, 1 think 
if we had the grain in bulk we would be better able to guard against the 
depredations of weevils and similar pests. As for the difficulty of carrying the 
wheat from the threshing plant to the elevator, I think box wagons could easily 
be constructed to enable the wheat being conveyed from the thresher either to 
the station or to the farmer’s own house. The trouble is one that ought to be 
easily overcome. 
Mr. k. Sumner (Zillmere) : I believe it is hard to grade wheat, owing to 
the number of varieties in cultivation, but it is probable that a time will come 
when this number will be considerably lessened. At present I believe it is 
almost impossible to grade the wheat on the Downs from this cause. Elevators 
will have to come—that is, if Queensland is going to be a wheat-producing 
country. Anyone who has seen wheat from America or Russia unloaded in 
Enpland will recognise this. 
The Hon. A. J. Tuynne: I am exceedingly flattered at the very kind way 
you have received this subject, and I am encouraged that some practical 
outcome will result from the discussion that has taken place. The questions’ 
that have been asked indicate that there are three main points on which doubt 
seems to exist. One’of them is the getting of the wheat from the farm to the 
railway station. I shall tell you how the farmer in America -does it. In his’ 
barn he has his own bins of a size sufficient to meet his expectations of a crop.’ 
He gets a thresher and sends his grain straight to his bin. One gentleman’ 
spoke of a farmer who perhaps had to carry his wheat 80 miles to a railway. 
There are advantages and disadvantages in every man’s position, and he has to 
deal with them according to' that position. The American farmer gets his grain 
into a bin large enough to hold his whole crop. He does not use many bags, 
although he may use a few for the purpose of carrying his grain from the 
thresher to his barn. The main thing is he does not use bags for storage 
purposes. We next come to a different practice to what we see in Australia. 
You all know the American wagon—the long, low, flat-tyred, lorry-shaped 
wagon which is used almost universally for farm purposes in America | They 
