146 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Sxer., 1902. | 
The larger producers in the less thickly populated districts carry their grain? | 
“tank-wagons,” as they are sometimes called. This method of transportati® | 
is considerably cheaper than that mentioned above. ‘These grain-wagoDs | 
having a capacity of 1 ton to 3 tons, can be bought for about 50 dollars. The | 
top boards are removable, leaving the wagon in shape for other farm wot | 
The price of labour, horses, feed, and wagons being about the same as in Nev | 
South Wales, and the roads and distances being about the same in those pall’ | 
where these special wagons are used, the price per mile for haulage is about the 
same as in New South Wales. : 1 
Instead of buying a ready-made grain-wagon, some of the most success! | 
producers of wheat build long boxes, 4 feet by 4 feet by 12 feet, and ™ | 
threshing-time these are bolted on to the same wagons that at reapii ae 
are used for hauling sheaves. This seems to me the most practical of all the | 
ways I have seen. ‘The boxes are of common matched board, and are kept fro” | 
bulging by frame-work at the ends and in the middle. The top and bottoP | 
pieces of the frames are 2-inch by 4-inch scantling, and the side pieces are 10 
rods -inch by 1 inch, held with nut and screw. Such simple boxes can be built | 
Fig. 9.—Wooden box such as is provided by farmers in the United States for carrying lon f 
grain from the field to the elevator. This box is made of g-inch matched pine. 1, 2, 3; ah, | 
are pieces of pine 2 inches by 4 inches, and are held in place by flat iron rods 1 inch by zu to | 
each rod having a thread and nut at both ends, asshown at 5. ‘These boxes range in size UP ali 
4 feet by 4 feet by 12 feet. The farther end of this box carries a slide door near the bottom, not | 
dette the grain in the box runs out when required. This box is to be bolted on to a wag? 4 
ray. ; 
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for a little more than the cost of the material, and leave the running part of | 
wagon free for a wider variety of uses on the farm than would otherwise be 
case, and may be built to fit any wagon or dray. 
Grain-cars. al 
The ordinary American freight-car is of box form, haying two sliding 40 | 
on opposite sides at the middle of the car. Several styles of these cars val | | 
frequently pictured in these pages. The width of these cars is 9 feet ove al 
The inside dimensions are 29 feet to 34 feet by 6} feet to 9 feet by 8 fee 
(width). They are made in a variety of forms, with or without air-brake, 7 al 
a variety of running gear and to carry from 20 to 35 tons, sheathed insidé ai 
not (the latter seldom), &e. When made for the so-called grain-lines Me \) 
differ but little from the cars on lines that carry miscellaneous freight—in ii i 
the bulk of the grain-crop is transported in a few weeks, and all railway WA | 
find it better to use a general purpose car. The accompanying plates, numbe! all 
10 to 15, show in detail the peculiarities of these grain-cars as used on hall i 
dozen different American railroads. The dimensions, weight, and capacity we} 
each style are given, as wellas the cost. The prices are for the spring of *y | 
year 1900. It is necessary to bear this in mind, as the prices vary some 
with the price of materials. A carload is reckoned at 800 bushels. 
