Homesteading: two prairie seasons by West Edward

Author:West, Edward
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Agriculture, Farm life
Publisher: London T.F. Unwin
Published: 1918-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

A Trip to Town

tend with in the shipment of their grain. So much has been said about the excellent methods of the elevators in helping farmers to realize their harvests, that the would-be colonist is apt entirely to mistake the position.

The truth is, that though the theory and some of the methods may be good, most growers would hail with derision a statement that they worked well in practice.

The general handling of grain in bulk instead of in bags (the common practice in Britain and some colonies) is probably far superior to the latter method, and effects a great saving of time and expense. Then, too, the plan by which, on delivering his load at the elevator, the grower receives a cheque for the value at the market price of the day for his grade of quality is good.

But to form an idea of the farmers' grievances in this matter we must begin further back. Now, it must be borne in mind that, though railroad construction has been very active, the country is so immense, and settlement has been so rapid and great, that it has pushed far ahead of the railroads, the consequence being that settlers are trying to grow grain fifty or a hundred or even more miles from existing railroads.

There was, for instance, a settlement thirty or forty miles north of us, although, as has been

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