The Elevator Was A Persian Well Wheel - A Wheel Squashed Out Thin
And Cased In A Pipe, A Wheel Driven Not By Bullocks, But By Much
Horse-Power, Licking Up The Grain At The Rate Of Thou-Sands Of
Bushels The Hour.
And the wheat sunk into the fore-hatch while a
man looked - sunk till the brown timbers of the
Bulkheads showed
bare, and men leaped down through clouds of golden dust and
shovelled the wheat furiously round the nose of the trunk, and
got a steam-shovel of glittering steel and made that shovel also,
till there remained of the grain not more than a horse leaves in
the fold of his nose-bag.
In this manner do they handle wheat at Buffalo. On one side of
the elevator is the steamer, on the other the railway track; and
the wheat is loaded into the cars in bulk. Wah! wah! God is
great, and I do not think He ever intended Gar Sahai or Luckman
Narain to supply England with her wheat. India can cut in not
without profit to herself when her harvest is good and the
Ameri-can yield poor; but this very big country can, upon the
average, supply the earth with all the beef and bread that is
required.
A man in the train said to me: - "We kin feed all the earth, jest
as easily as we kin whip all the earth."
Now the second statement is as false as the first is true.
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