HANDLING GRAIN IS CANADA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 22

HANDLING GRAIN IS CANADA.

The provision for the storage of grain along 1 the Canadian railway system in the prairie regions is officially returned at 1221 elevators and 52 warehouses, havinpr a capacity of 55£ million bushels. The size of these elevators runs from 5000 to 50,000 bushels in the rural districts, but the^ largest are the terminal elevators at the lako ports, which have a capacity of one to four million bushels each. Thie elevator equipment is of the first importance! to the settlers, and it is being added to every year. The elevators are owned bycompanies, flour mills, and individuals.. Competition among them is keen, and a> ready market is thus secured for any grain offering. A new feature is the co-opera< five ownership of elevators by farmers in the older districts. Under a recent provision of the Railway Act, farmers desiring! to make direct shipments of their own grain without the intervention of the middleman to the terminal elevators at lake ports may requisition box cars from the railway company for bulk despatch (the capacity of a box car is 1000. bushels). The effect of these facilities as a whole ie to secure entire freedom to the farmer in. the ! marketing of his produce.