Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 10, 1921, Winnipeg, Manitoba 18 december Page 2 Trade and come he Grain at the water front Foontai Nuell from Page elevator the cars spotted Over the in cases this is done toy Yard engines but in the majority of Ini stances the cars no hauled into Plant by mounts or a no Nat in Way that work is carried out there is still the probe from the signal goes to the Lem left of removing the weigh men who notify the operators Fox this work of unload below when they Are ready to handle ing is done by two methods which j More the Grain might be termed us manhandling from 1jie Garner by a Leve operated from the weighing taken depends almost entirely on the Hopper to after the Grain has been Dumpel into the receiving Hopper it is transferred to i receiving then Els rated in a conveyor to the top of the House or Heads of Back Down into the a height of about two Hundred feet above Lake level the Garner is the storage Hopper above the receiving and shipping Scales and the Grain passes through it on the Way to the when a of Grain is sent up and Only one elevator at the prent is equipped with a patented motor driven Thusn a year ago the Canadian National elevator of port which the largest Plant in the installed live in operated solely by mechanical it in a with Export whether Iho r method can in times Vanir with the older but it is n wonderful display of Taso and Speed in the actual Clearing of the the Tiffi Cury perms to e in conveying the Grain out of the Hopper after it Lias been time no doubt will remedy this a full sized car of wheat is unloaded in about five i on from the time it is spotted in comi Parl flon to the other method of 20 i a system of communication is up ii Light signals and speaking Between the operators unto Walag Fel Shepit and the the which number about two to one arc of weighing 60 tons a government welshman works wit i the company Man and each shipment is recorded on a Chiefe has All particulars stamped on these tickets Are filed away for future re Feit nce so that information on ship ment of wheat of years standing can be procured if made clean As a the handling of the wheat after 11 has been Canadian produce association v annual convention the Grain mens problem is to find How to conserve the sur plus ing the mixed with the it goes Down the Shutes leading into motor driven these Are made up of three of different sized experts on Aflfe subject of produce will Forpe Jather at Winnipeg on the operation of the unloader is the which separate the broken j 3n when the annual of Ramon ii a i n in to next a non me annual Levels and secure animal skeletons and other injured ii if Nimons when unloading Tho go Over the to be lifted i be reflected in ration is accompanied by by the operator or employee keeping result of Oare Plov designed and seemingly warranted the car of propelled by a moves Over a of the track which above one of Tho unloading the Towerman on duty in his elevated motor House turns on the Power which the for latter operation Tuge clutching Arm Jit each end uti loader rising up 1ixjni the track on a worm arrangement until the car is in a Vise like grip and is perfectly when this is the work ing a Naif Moon gear on which s j attached a starts mov Jug in its of All the parts of j the massive thin Section j mems to have been developed to the utmost Point of yet without to much is breaking a the two having spikes push up the Grain door find hold it firmly to the roof during the emptying with Tho older system Tho car doors have to broken with and a foreign matter from the norms Kernel of convention of the Canadian pro will follow the principal Calgary has not had some Opportunity to study livestock he is certainly going to be indeed is the farm boy whose father knows a Good beast and will take the time to Tell his lad Why he thinks one bet Ter than and when we give boy the advantage of Good instruction in livestock at some Felt client school or College we place Liin in a position to hand Down this knowl ing that the farm built upon the is made up of some producers Home basis is the True foundation of of milk throughout the by this great business of our the the Man who wishes to sell the and the most we cannot expect to return from the madness of a condition to a peace basis without a few but the land and the men on it will survive the crisis and go on through future Genera giving Many people the pleas Edge to his and then we begin sure and Joys of life such As come to establish on our farms a class of livestock breeders that will grow in knowledge and skill with each succeeding one Fine thing about farming is through whose ambition and achieve that the old farm May to handed j ment we will build up an agriculture from Home life amid Rural surroundings where shall bereaved and nurtured the boys and girls who will vigor to the nations and Winnipeg r Toronto irom me Noru Iai Kernel of i i r Marker the Slevon Are kept clean by an in association opens in the fort Dairy commissioner for Vertex Brush passing Over the Garry this is the first time the dust and Light dirt is carried away Down a spoilt to the Bottom i of the while stones this important body has met West of the great the Trade has passed through experiences during the past twelve months which the floor if the Grain is to be shipped immediately it passes Tiack through the shipping Scales and is spouted to the tank or shipping if it is to t5e stored for a time it passes through the network of conveyors to the storage Tho storage tanks 55 feet in depth and contain about is cars of they Are built of Terra Cotta Brick and Are occasionally fire starts in one of the containers through explosion of Vio Lent but fortunately in the modern elevators the Blaze can not if Tho Grain is Tough or Damp it passes through drying it making their value for anything but i carried Over steam heated Colls and kindling Wood a total swung about like match with these trip coast is Clear Lor action of in Tho Section of will goes up on Ono end like a Teeter then it moves Back to the level and upon the other two motor Lioves similar to those in electric Street Are used in regular in this following the Hack and Forth tipping a Low walled called a baffle moves into the Cor and owing to its shape and a carpet blocks All the Grain from running to the Low and of the car and directs it out the about six or eight Upland Down and the car is the machinery is thrown into everything is released and the car running Down the inclined passes through a out on to Tho track where other empties Are Awalt Injo their turn be picked up by the Yard taken away for a the other method in use is the Clarke this device Lias been in operation for some years and gives great tit apparatus is much like a Large sized Boko Board attached to tie end of a Cable and working on Ai overhead the guiding Force in a Man who starting at one pm of the dips Down the shovel and move Forward to the this car is kept up until the car is in a smooth working about bushels of Grain can be unloaded in a j 0hour two men work in a car and in Many of the elevators eight cars Are being unloaded at same the time through Cooling elevators have slightly different methods of but whatever is used to wheat has to thoroughly dried before it is considered Safe for ship toughness not Only lessens the Quality of Grain hut it endangers the housing Plant or ship in which it is conveyors All the movement of the once it has left the is done by a system of whenever the Grain is being transferred on a horizontal a Flat Belt in used to carry these travel at the Speed limit of 15 Miles per and convey about 12 to 13 cars of Grain in that the Grain is elevated by bucket the lifting legs contain wide belts upon Thich Are at 18 inches half Bushel the Grain is emptied out of the hoppers and garners by Means of some others in the difference depends on the Hopper from which the Grain has been All chutes on the distributing floor Are of the telescopic working on what is called the and feed into six to Muyo eight a passing comment might be in regard to the Power used in manipulating the vast amount of machinery in the modern most of the elevators Are Rayfor the horsepower of these motors varies according to the work they have to they Are used to operate elevator clean unloader and every appliance installed in the highly developed Grain although a certain amount of dust Clark Martin stocks and Bonds direct private wire to new Tork and correspondents new York and Chicago Logan Montreal greenshields Clark Martin 232 Portage iphone Huron Erie jets on the the list of a tentatively includes Edmonton Hedley Auld Deputy minister of Regina Calgary John Krott chief grader of Dairy producer for Toron to Vancouver a re Sinai Montreal and Sec Inholt to Tho sessions will continue for two with i president of the association in the Tho Secretary i James of the principal social function will Herner professor of be a banquet on Tho evening Manitoba agricultural Winnipeg John Bracken president Manitoba agricultural Winnipeg George Barr of Dairy department of Ottawa Montreal Ingersoll and sin Gleton chief of markets de of the leaders in the discussions that january at which addresses from the sir Aikins the Norris mayor Parnell George minister of agriculture for Manitoba late minister of agriculture for Saskatchewan Ami George Hoad minister of agriculture for Al Are collects around the different parts of the Tho cleanliness is considering the amount of dirt which accompanies every car of air air driven through and a Man plying the old time so contribute Toj the cleanliness of the House that a fac Tilous housewife would not complain too much of Tho collection of dust How employees get the Grain operators move around the Large plants in three or four different modes of a winding stairway leads from the ground floor to the and for health or other urgent those Ore the distance is about 200 feet not considering the spiral and provide excellent lung the War depleted not Only the farms of but shut off the immigration of european it has been estimated that the West has nearly acres of arable land waiting As a seed bed for wheat and other one docs not have to be a super Optimist to expect great things for Canada in the Grain this future output can alone to handled successfully by the terminal elevator during the seven lean people of Europe and the East will take on a new lease of life upon As the ancient jews did of that there is still and in the storage houses of shall Nihira Down father to son and with it a Herd of a few Brood a flock of Fine or a Herd of so that the son May build upon his fathers he May see from time to time the results of care and judg1 ment exercised Back a generation or two and so ills herds of mocks have a history As Well Asun interest for pursues his work with a greater and Gener ally achieves better results must stay by the our present problem Lato see that the depression of the moment does not deplete our farming population and that the discouragement does not become too great for our growing As nothing will work such Nav tic with of our soil As a conviction in the minds of farm boys today that living on the land is going to be an ill requited occupation Tot the next few if i were writing a political article i should begin my Sermon right and i have a notion i could preach feeling and but in pass let me mention one thing that alls farming at the moment it is railway both freight and Pas Senger the carrying charges on farm produce to a Market Are at pres ent far too Large a percentage of Tho value of the in this Case the Farmer takes his loss on what to has it is a Light then he bears another Bur Den so that the railways May be immune from any embarrassing re sults of the general Passen Ger rates Are nothing Short of Rob Bery for the it la Only about once or twice a year that he takes a trip of some perhaps to at tend some important but in very Many cases he and his if arc to to denied this Well deserved recreation this year because he would have to soil two or three times As Many bushels of Grain to buy Tho tickets As was formerly required to against nobody to present railway rates work such a hardship that will be at Onoe the Pride and the glory of our country the trip can be Inada on the motor driven this never exceeds Speed some of the floors have a Speedway in the form of a this is a Belt with a standing Board attachment to one Steps on this is shot up like a Fly scaling the or dropped in Jack Robinson if the workmen Are in a real How they take Theel iding pole for the it is not shining such As is used in but a full grown person can make pretty Good time on a 40foot these Are a few of the operations and mechanisms employed in a Ter Minal shipping Grain in addition to the actual handling of the Grain there is sampling or inspection government inspectors Grade the Grain before and during the unloading the grading at the terminal elevator to to the supreme court Deci a statistical department is kept working at full Speed during the fall and Winter record copying and compiling Grain re figures covering every Branch of the Grain business Are kept on file for private and Public statisticians working in this depart ment have ideas As to what might be the total amount of Grain Hondred through the terminal elevators for this but few if any Are will ing to risk their mathematical reputation on what the future still holds crops and during the past six years the acre age cultivation in Western Canada has increased from acres to these six years were not in a period when our could he considered As will your cold havea College education now Only a a baby Simour Childs educational endowment pie but Only a few from policy will provide the extra Money now you 11 be figuring on sending your needed for those years of child to Are you trying now to save a Little each year in order to ensure that your child will have that advantage you can arrange to give your child the Best education you act it can be written on any child at any it is the surest Means of guaranteeing that your child will not have to go through life without a Complete All that a Good education let in Tell you More about it Send the Coupon no of course insurance company head Branch manager Lindsay building cont aued from Paga country depends for its Progress and after the production of food most important function of any and especially Fri one blessed with Large areas of arable and where at least Cne Liuji the population lives on nothing can be More important in such a country than to keep Thi till hrs of the soil in a contented Frame of which Means that they shall enjoy reasonable measure of Prosperity and full measure of Happi every spasm of Boom prices that we come through makes out clearer Caso for the Small one that can be operated by the Farmer and has Vith the min i Mim of hired getting Back to Normal after Boom does not leave much doubt about this if we Ore to build our agricultural Prosperity upon a sound to must keep this in the great inducement for men and women to become Farmers is that their farm is both their livelihood and their what other occupation enjoys such an advantage the Man who works in a factory or Mercan tile establishment must have his Home outside his and have it at considerable while the Man on the land derives his income from his owns his very occur if you directs his own achieves results for which he give himself full and in the evening of his life enjoys a Security and satisfaction that Are a Large compensation for Somo of the things his town Brothers he has it is not that men and women make a livelihood they must also get a Good Deal out of and at the same time con tribute something to the intelligent citizenship of their this Means that Farmers sons and Daugh ters must get a better we f it Raj in n have made great Progress in the last As against the this is a question that must be promptly dealt with on both sides of the if we Are to to saved from the disastrous results that these rates Aro now having upon our in readjustments such As Are now going on the Farmer is generally placed in i rather helpless position he must sell his wares in Tho open Marka against the keenest and he must Quito in a mar Ket that by sundry devices la Able to for a time at the evil Day of decline in this makes these Hills hard for the Farmer to get some of these things can and will be in spite of them let us not Overlook the compensations that people who live on farms and keep before coun try Boya and girls the advantages of a self sustaining and self contained Rome place where n family finds its occupation and its plays the part of both employer and shares the profits Between the owners and the Kepes capital and labor on the Best of solves Tho housing settles the hours of labor according to the demands of Tho Fields or barns despises Daylight saving and develops in men and women a character and resourcefulness that makes for sane citizen real education do not let our men and women on the land lose losses in Many cases have been and quite a number men were found unprepared for the but look about and see if agriculture has not come through the past year about As Well As any other and for those on modest a great Deal bet i am no advocate of i do not think governments should do thinks for people of any one class that could be counted As a and where we have so much land to cultivate and so Large a population filling the think have far Short of our Public duty in the matter of scientific instruction in we do a great Deal of work with country or District and i do not for a moment depreciate either their usefulness or their inspiration to farm ers in Many sections but that is not agricultural nor a substitute for As try to educate medical men by a correspondence we must have a More widely spread Opportunity for farm and Avail themselves of practical instruction in the science of agricultural our agricultural colleges have done won but they Are too far away from too Many Joys and the work la too great for them the number of students who would attend is a Hun dred times too Large for their accommodation the problem should has wonderful Progress in state of Minnesota continued from Page two decades in but we must and Vance still i it is a matter for cooperation Between the Farmer and the and both must see that boys and girls born on the land get something better than a primary school better trained minds mean better and we must that their education is such ration and there never was a time More opportune for nations to make a substantial invest ment in scientific farm nearly everything else has been Well attended to this a a our attention we need no improvement upon our methods in Many of our present Day i Nav love Midi Ciul Liun la 3uci1 As to keep them in touch wit the Oljey Are doing wonderful but land and what it if this we Rich us and i dirt Toke agricultural education to done we would fluid Many boys who i left the farm for a time returning to e door it in later we have frequently had a Large number of Farmers in their declining years retiring from the farm to live in that is a movement could never under education to is now so Hopo t spirit of pioneers to carry on farming to we need the spirit of the Pioneer the courage but i could understand men j and Industry that not so Many years who had spent some years in a town ago faced the forests on the Eastern half of this that hewed them Down and planted land with schools we who live on the Prairies on the but who in our Youthful Days saw some thing of the labor and hardships attendant upon the making of a Home in the will always Honor the memory of the men and women of those Pioneer while we would not have to Jese privations yet the courageous and indomitable fun Orlf Corique red not Only Yoor educational endowment la or City retiring to farms and get Ting the keenest kind of enjoyment out of living close to and raising a few Good calves or an counting it the most pleasing occupation they had Ever engaged the future farm during the last dozen years a great Deal has been done to improve our j knowledge of livestock and soil Cul i yet among the rank and file of our farming population slow Many boys Are there growing up who have ony a very indifferent knowledge of holds our admiration but we either Good workmanship is the earnestly Hope there is enough of it Pride of the and when he left to win again against the Odds applies his skill and Genius to a Pec that now seem to Block the Way of which excites the agriculture Uon of All who see he then gets t t full measure Tor satisfaction from i that this is his daily and the result of his me our Farmers to an is also very Likely to prove interest in our National of the next generation of markets for our surplus farm Farmers must be of the same Frame represent the problem of of if the key Industry of our the and xthl3 is a time not for country is not to and if in soms any class for the of parts of the land we Are not to write j rect Lee employment of our Best farm the Story of the abandoned in the of a situation that some few men occasionally hit it the very foundation of our Rich in wheat farming on Large because it end an just As few seekers or or production of sold have chances upon their foodstuffs the most vital thing in so it a with the livestock our National merchant who operates in a Large this Christmas tide is a Good time Ivay hut for the great body of farm for and also rejoicing who make up the Rural that we liven a land of Ina there is but on thing to keep j tend untouched by rav in and that is that is Ages of and far the pangs their Nad this is a Case where the Back Field is As much a part of a mans Home As his front i he must handle each acre the Best care skill he can bring to Bear upon and farm what be can give his a head lives those be his but if he of famine where our reconstruction is a trifling matter compared with the burdens some countries Are upon to our Trade need a and the Pinch of falling revenues on our is being heavily but these All Point to the Mora that smaller v operations in farm1 state of the fertilizer from the Dairy this is placed at or roughly about per from 1911 to 1920 the statistics for the last 10 year period Are enormously they Are arranged toy counties and it is possible to Tell at a glance the following items of take the county Aitkin for exam Post in 1911 this county had 3 cooperative and z Independent 300 patrons and cows contribute it received pounds of Cream yielding of but Ter fat testing Mads pounds of paid its patrons an average of 24 cents per Pound of butter fat or t of and its operating expenses were in the year 1d20 we find that if Caln county had five cooperative Cream eries and still two Independent the number of patrons has risen to or in the 10years while the number of cows contributory has grown to or an increase of the creameries received pounds of milk and pounds of Cream or pounds butter fat made pounds of butter paid patrons per Pound of but Ter fat or a total of tha running expenses were and the total amount received for the butter was from Complete figures such As these How easy to Check up and find what part of the state is keeping bettor what Section is going behind where production costs Are increasing abnormally and a Host of other important Minnesota High Thero is an item in the front i of this bulletin which will mightily in Terest butter makers on the Prairies of it is to this that tha professional butter makers of Minnesota Aro guarding jealously Minnesota As Tho top score Watato of the United they satisfy the fastidious new Tork and other european and now with the slogan 92 score or better they Progress steadily Onward to Heights which at present Are impossible to a score of 92 does not look very High to provinces running Over covering a period of six this should be a stimulus to All Western Canadian accredited Minnesota has gone far and fast in the matter of accredited and today has the largest number of accredited herds in the namely herds containing cattle there Are also herds containing cattle that have passed one test without show ing any reactors while there have been 721 herds containing cattle that on test showed reactors from which cattle have been the state indemnifies owners for cattle ordered Minnesota makes a Large amount cheese though it is relatively Small in comparison to the value of factory cheese for 1920 was ice Cream is a big namely Over milk sales run Over and Cream Over cooperation among producers la growing Hera As elsewhere and Johnson told the writer of the rapid strides that Are being made in work ing out an organization uniting All or practically All the Coli Drawve this would look after the interest of the Selling end and perform a number of other standardization of the out put of creameries by districts would be so that Carload shipments would command a constant Market on their Quality and Grade ultimately the plan is for representatives this organization to be maintained on All the big terminal markets of the East to look after the marketing of Minnesota milk Minnesota has very Good Protection in the matter of milk in addition to the take the twin cities for no one can sell raw milk without if coming from tubercular tested there is a Large and efficient staff of inspectors constantly moving about the state taking ing after and generally guarding the safety of the individual from the dangers of dirty or Dis eased these inspectors Are under Sibbal a exc Nadian very glad to Over old acquaintances on the Canadian about so per cent of the milk sold in the twin cities is the dealers through the twin cities milk company which raw Mik must have his cows tested annually an3 a of each test must be sent to the Secretary of the state livestock sanitary Board for j state milk ordinance which was revised in january pre sent year was drafted and approved by the division of Dairy husbandry of the department of University of Minnesota state Board of health and is pensive let contracts for relieve unemployment to found land government again let contracts for Cut Wood on the Crown lands government Ati its hands a considerable the pulpwood Cut last win has Hopes of Makins an with the Harmsworth pulp j take a Large Quantity of our foreign Exchange service the of Nova Scotia branches in the leading financial centres of the world As Well As 7 correspondents in practically every foreign our service to buyers and Sellers of foreign Exchange is consequently most our private wires Between new Toronto and Montreal enable us to Supply our branches with the most up Odate Exchange we Purchase cheques or Bills on countries and Issue at favourable rates drafts payable in the United great Czecho Slovakia and almost every the Bank of Nova Scotia established 1832 paid up s manager main Reserve resources 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