However, any process that could be devised would
probably be unprofitable to the small cropper, and the larger the
business done, the less the cost per bushel. If it should be found that
individual operators could not reach such an improvement on a profitable
scale, why could not several of them pool their issues sufficiently to
build, jointly, a potato elevator? There are at least 50,000 bushels of
potatoes held in store by farmers within three miles of where I live. It
seems to me there would be many advantages and economies in having that
large stock under one roof, one insurance, one management; on a side
track where they could be loaded in any weather or state of the roads,
besides the great item that the temperature could be controlled, by
artificial means, in one large building much cheaper than in several
small ones.
EDWIN TAYLOR.
Edwardsville, Kans.
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[KNOWLEDGE.]
A FIVEFOLD COMET.
The figure illustrating this article is taken from _L'Astronomie_, and
represents the remarkable southern comet of January, 1887, as drawn on
successive days by Mr. Finlay, of Cape Town.
The comet was first seen by a farmer and a fisherman of Blauwberg, near
Cape Town, on the night of January 18-19.
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