TO DRV CROPS.
BRITISH INVENTION. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, Oct. 7. ‘ The Oxford University institute of agricultural engineers has invented a system, of drying crops which it is believed will revolutionise British agriculture, allowing harvests to be gathered in the wettest weather and preventing deterioration in hay crops. The scheme is to cut a crop and take it up in circular stacks of ten to twenty tons around a hollow central chamber, when hot air will be blown over them by powerful fans. Haystacks have been dried by this method in ten hours without fermentation. Eighteen tons of barley were cut and dried in. fourteen hours at a cost of Is 6d a ton, the grain turning out bright and hard.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 9 October 1924, Page 5
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121TO DRV CROPS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 9 October 1924, Page 5
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