NO MORE ELEVATORS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2066, 1 July 1890, Page 1

NO MORE ELEVATORS.

A system is now under consideration by which ihe present method of storing , grain will be completely revolutionised. Should it prove a success, says a contemporary, the elevators now in ' general use will become obsolete, and ievery farmer will be supplied with a substitu'e by whicli he will bs able to store his grain tor years at cost and no risk, Ihe maintains that he cau m»?,nfeciure steel tanks of any ffquired capacity, an 1 at a cost averaging from 4c to sc, say 2d to ( for each bushel of capacity, as against 40q to 500 now expended on wooden elevators. The steel tanks will be fi led with grain by a simple process. When the tank fs full, a percentage of air is 1 exhausted and a (quantity of carbonic acid gas admitted.- The.valves are then closed, and the grain will keep sound for years. Having exhausted the oxygen 1 there is no chance of fermentation, and, as a consequence, no decay or rot. At the same time all the animal life perishes and the grain is secure against the ravages of weevils, which ara so destructive, With a tank costing 500101,, the farmer, has-storoge for 16,000 bushels, land can hold his crop against Inw. prices until the market improves. Fire cannot born it- nor damp, nor rain cannot injure it. - The process by which the grain is 'manipulated is as simple as it is effective, |tt consists.in an airtight receiver, leading •from which is a l»rg* pipe, so arranged. >as to be held over the grain in the receiver it is desired to unload, By means of a suction fan is exhausted in 'the receiver, and rushing; to fi I the ; vacuum is sufficient, Uis said, to draw li e (grain into the pipe, through which it passes to the tank. Should the process (prove a socces, it will most eff dually jpot an end to the proceedings of those persons whose business appears to be the making of fictitious valuations of breadstuffs.—H urns News.'