Grain inspection in Canada . 60 a o +3CS p. be be 14 the farmers. What proportion of the total grain shipped is loaded over the plat-forms is difficult to estimate, but it is probably about one-third of the whole. The Elevators (fig. 3).—There are, as stated, 2,558 elevators licensed in thethree provinces. Their total storage capacity is estimated as 81,Y20,000 of them are owned by the Dominion Government or the railway companies,and in Alberta and Saskatchewan none of them are owned by the ProvincialGovernments. The Manitoba Government owned and operated a line of elevatorsfor
Grain inspection in Canada . 60 a o +3CS p. be be 14 the farmers. What proportion of the total grain shipped is loaded over the plat-forms is difficult to estimate, but it is probably about one-third of the whole. The Elevators (fig. 3).—There are, as stated, 2,558 elevators licensed in thethree provinces. Their total storage capacity is estimated as 81,Y20,000 of them are owned by the Dominion Government or the railway companies,and in Alberta and Saskatchewan none of them are owned by the ProvincialGovernments. The Manitoba Government owned and operated a line of elevatorsfor a time, but subsequently leased them to a company. Two or three munici-palities experimented with them also, but not with the happiest results. Withthese exceptions, all the elevators are owned and operated by jommercial com-panies, or farmers co-operative companies. When the farmer takes his grainto an elevator he can either sell the grain to the operator, in which case it iscalled street grain, or he can hire a bin in th
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