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Otago Witness, Issue 2490, 4 December 1901, Page 18

The Incoming Grain Season. TO THE EDITIOR.

' Sib. — T see the Railway Derailment hive Ict-cI v considerable slice of ground intervening between the _Kelwi railway statior and goads- t'.iod This will have the effect of very considerably minimising the available what I may call working ground. Hitherto almo.-t c\ery season all tiie spare ground has at so.ne period of each season beea wiioUy utilised in the sUckinfi oi

immense heaps of grain while awaiting trucks. Now, Sh% a glut of grain arriving is intensified or otherwise in direct ratio to the price ruling.- Thus, in a season when oats are low in price, growers are in no hurry to cart, and grain arrives bteadily and gradually. Tho "diverse of this, however, is the case when grain is at a high price. Then a veritable rush ensues. Now, Sir, the capacity of our railway yard has been taxed to the utmost when gia.in came in gradually. What must Aye expect it to be this season when, in all probability, grain will be at a high price, and the yard accommodation is so lessened. This is a serious matter for farmers here. The writer has seen thousands of sacks stacked for weeks and weeks at the mercy of wind and weather, not .to 6peak of the insidious ravages of rat-? and mice. There is really only one remedy, and this must be effected at once. Instead of the tin-pot goods shad we have here at present, that any ordinary two or three farmers' produce can fill, we must have a goods shed* erected commensurate with the enormous quantities of grain that annually is railed from this important centre. Then, and not until then, will we get anything approaching fair play in accommodation for our produce. — I am, etc.. Fkasek Falcones.