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Southland Times, Issue 23408, 15 January 1938, Page 19

Increased use is being made of the farms of Great Britain of recentlyevolved grass-drying machines, which dry and bale fresh-cut grass and obviate the necessity of stacking, states Mr H. Valder, of Hamilton, who has returned from a visit to the Old Country and Europe. This development is, however, hardly past the practically experimental stages, says Mr Valder, and the cost of drying the grass is rather high. The drying units, too, can hardly cope with the grass as fast as it is cut, though some of the machines now working can dry up to 7cwt an hour. The process has not yet reached that stage of development when it can be applied to large-scale grasslands, such as are the rule in New Zealand.