The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1922-02-23
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Cobb county Ideally Located For
Such Establishment. Great help.
For Grain Farmers

A meeting of the Marietta busi-
ness men was held Monday night at
the Civilian Club rooms to hear re-
ports from the committees at work
raising the necessary capital to build
a grain elevator in Marietta to ere
ate market for grain products ara
Cobb county.
Splendid progress was reported by
the committees and a ready response
Ito the proposition among the citizens
of this section. Nearly $4,000 of
the necessary $4,000 to build and
operate was subscribed up 20 the time
of going to press and the committees
are now at work to finish up the neceS
sary amount in a minimum of time.
Cobb county is to have a grain
elevator. This seems assured 1T
will be the first elevator in the state
north of Columbus, Macon and Au-
gusta. The grain elevator being srcfn
a new thing in this section, it may be-
well to tell our readers just what IL
is and what it does.
Elevators are primarily of two
kinds, the receiving and the storage
elevator. The receiving, or country
elevator, is comparatively small and
is the place where the farmer takes.
his grain to sell to the elevator itself
or to have it cleaned and forwarded
to the storage elevator. It is the
same thing to the grain grower that
the gin is to the cotton grower, while
the storage elevator corresponds to.
the cotton compress. Thess last are
generally of large size, often with
capacity for storing a million or mort
bushels of grain, located at distribus-
ing Or shipping points, such as Chica-
go, New Orleans or New York. The
grain goes in small quantities frUnR
the country elevators to these storage
elevators where it is accumulated and
stored until used or shipped abroad
The country elevator is much small
Ter, having capacity for storing, Say
$4,000 or 10000 bushels with mach
inery for handling. AS generally cor
structed, the elevator is built with a
small office building with a wagUr
scale along side of it in front of the
elevator proper. A farmer with *
load of grain to sell drives his team
onto the scales where it is weighed
He then drives a bit further into
driveway which goes through tive
elevator building snd drives his wag-
elevator building and drives his wag-
on is tipped up and the load falls
down into a pit where, if it is corn.
as it comes from the field, it Is put
through a shuck shelter which hustoS
and shells it. 1t then passes to the
elevator, which is an endless moving
chain fitted with buckets into which
the grain falls and is carried up Co the
top floor Of the building. There II
passes through a cleaning machine
which removes all dirt and defective
grains, and from this it passes iGF0
a storage bin below When it is cU
be shipped out of the elevator, it IS
carried by the elevating machinery to-
the upper part Of the building ana
from there through a spout into a.
freight car on the railroad track g.
longsde.
Thus every operation is reduce2
to minimum in time and expense re-
CURED After the farmer has drlE--
en- his wagon off the dump he drives
it back on the wagon scale where *
is weighed again and the difference
between the weight full and empty
gives the weight of the grain for
which he gets a check from the MARI
ager of the elevator, which he take
uptown to the bank and gets cashe6-
Note that in the elevator everything
is done by machinery and gravity
Machinery carries the grain to tf2ea
top of the building and gravity car
ries it down to the storage bins. Ma
chinery does the husking and clear
ing. The result of this is that the
cost of handling is reduced to MINI
mum and the quality of the grain
handled is kept up so it fetches tfqs
best market price, The elevator carr
thus afford to pay more to the farm
er than can the ordinary merchant
who has not the proper machinery 8SETe
it, and yet the elevator CAR
make better profit on its operation
than the merchant can. The efatSe-- :
tor manager keeps in touch with thee
quotations on the grain markets ans
his prices accordingly. This
again reduces his chance of loss 10 a.
minimum and enables him to give a.
better price to the farmer than the
can.
The elevator thus brings all sorts
of advantages to the community that
it serves. 1t provides a place whefr
grain can be turned into cash as read
lily as cotton can. The farmer ueyeS
has to hunt around for a purchaser.
The prices that the elevator can af-
ford to pay act as stimulant to tHe
farmer in raising grain because re
knows that he can at any time tu-s
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