THE PROPOSED GRAIN-DRESSING COMPANY AT WINCHESTER.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2764, 2 August 1883, Page 3

THE PROPOSED GRAIN-DRESSING COMPANY AT WINCHESTER.

TO MB KDITOB OF TIIB TIMABU BBX4LTJ. Sir, — As tho establishment of this company would be of immense benefit to the farming community, permit me, through tho medium of your journal, to remove one or two doubts which some entertain regarding it. In the first instance, tho threshing machine proprietors say, " Pay us better and we will dress your grain better ;" and, with somo farmers, this appears reasonable- and feasible ouough. I havo no desire to disparage the threshing maehino owners in any way, but it must be at onco apparent to nil who will think the matter out that they are the very last men to be entrusted with tho careful dressing and grading of grain. They work curly and late, and under most varying and trying circumstances, and cannot do more than they do with their present appliances, therefore, they can scarcoly bo expected to undertake the dressing of grain for the lloiuo markets ; this must clearly be the work of some such company as tho Winchester one. Again, tho doubt has been expressed that the establishment of this company would bo opposed to tho interests of the Co-operative, and other corporations. How this can be I for ono fail to see. The groin dealing companies surely prefer clean, well dressed grain, to dirty, undressed samples ; and besides, tho Co'-operutivo Association havo never yet dono anything in the way of shipping grain. Up to the present they have done a little storing on farmers* account, and it can make no ditCerctico to them whether they store clean or dirty grain. If farmers could eco tho immonse direct benefit to themselves that would arise from the operations of tho proposed company, they would tako very good care that it was stortod on such a footing that it should bo readv to begin working by noxt harvest time j and", as it is, I hope the Directors will keep that end in viow. I aui, &i\, i Oxb is favor op it.