The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-01-28

and 2oo. GOO bushels of grain go through
the place every day. Some of it is
cleaned in the building before it is
weighed. and the arrangement of shafts
and endless buckets il, most cnnven-
lent for sending it from one end of the
building to the other.
The kernel was talking to told mo
that on a mans hat brim he rode into
the scalc-room Office.
a man keeps track of every kernel of
corn that passes through the building.
He has an office on the scale floor and
several assistants. Along onc side of
the room is blackboard, having an
outline of the plan of the interior of the
building painted on it. The receiving
bins and shipping bins are connected
by chalk marks, showing which ones
may be Immediately connected for the
shifting of grain.
Below this are squares numbered
after each of the 80 storage bins i'll the
elevator. Red wheat in red chalk. corn
in yellow chalk. green wheat in green
chalk, wheat in white chalk. and oats in
purple chalk were marked on each
square to represent the number of the
bin to which it refers. Only two of the
bins We're empty last week, and the man
in charge could tell in Il twinkl;ng if an
order for a certain number of bushels of
any kind of grain should cornc in jus:
what bins he could go to to find it. And
below this was another table that looked
like a schoolhoy's formula for finding
the least common multiple. by this he
could tell just what legs and belts and
machinery he would have to connect in
order to get it ready for shipment in the
III h who
while he was talking the scale bin
was omptied again by a man who pulled
IL gate, and left the hcartbrokcn kerr
mel and was whiskcd down through Il
dozen bins without stepping except to
catch my breath. Early one morning.
after | had rested half the night, we had
| to 90 again.
This time it was on to Il canalhoat or
| lighter, which was to take us alongside
an ocean steamer. Down Il long leg
there are nineteen of them on the west
side of tn" elevator-we went. You
never saw such Il fall, and the, grain
! poured out of the leg just as water flows
cut of pip". The dust was suffocat-
ing. l struck the side of the boat and
lay on the deck, for a moment partly
stunned. One man held the end of the
leg down which the corn was falling.
He had a rope about it and pulled on
the rope to guide it. First it filled up
one side of the boat and then the other
! Another man wallOwed in the corn on
board with a shovel. He wore a muzzle
OF his face that made his head look like
the head Of old Farmer Browns hogs
| The other kernels OF corn were fright
'ned. They did not object to being sent
to distant Russia, where they could re-
| lievc the famine. or 90 to Ireland either
where they could do much good. Blu;
! to fall into the trough of hog after
such Il journey was beyond their endur-
ance. Just then saw that it was a
muzZlc the man had put on to keep on,
cortications from !lying into his nostrils
He was covered with dust and his haiI
was gray with it.
We were soon pulled out into the river
alongside an ocean steamer. 4 tug
came after us and a lot OF boats were
htchcd together. Some OF them left
beside tramp steamships. Others Were
dropped alongside the big passenger
boats. The one l was on was left by