DRYING CROPS.
WET SEASON HARVESTS. HELP FOR FARMERS. A crop drying process which should prove a boon iu wet harvest seasons has been evolved at the Institute of Agricultural Engineering at Oxford University, and is shortly to be demonstrated on the university farm at Sandford, near Oxford. ■, The crop is cut. and made into circular stacks of from 10 to 20 tons in weight, around a hollow central chamber, into which hot air is forced by a power-driven fan. The fact that the temperature of the stack is not allowed to rise above that of the ingoing air precludes the possibility of fermentation. Haystacks have been ciried in 10 hours at a much lower cost and with better results than in ordinary drying in the field. Cereals have also been treated successfully. Eighteen tons of barley containing weeds were stacked immediately after cutting and dried in 14 hours at a cost of about Is 6d a ton. In unfavourable weather the increase in value of the product is found to be at least 15s a ton.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4776, 14 November 1924, Page 3
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176DRYING CROPS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4776, 14 November 1924, Page 3
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