NEW HARVESTING METHOD
BIG SAYING FOR FARMER. By a new method of harvesting devised hy a farmer in Scotland, thousands of pounds are being saved to ! the farmers of his land who suffer i huge losses almost every season from damage to igrain and hay crops rotted j by rain and dampness. Bletal tripods ! •are set up the fields, seven to the j acre, and the cut grain or hay is i stacked round them to form "huts." 1 Three vent holes left at the ground { level allow air to circulate through' j the crop and dry it. The stacking i makes each "hut" a temporary rick | practically impervious to rain, and 1 thus the crop does not deteriorate ( by being left out in had weather. ' When the hay or grain is gathered a | tractor thrusts a haysweep under the ; entire "hut" and conveys it to the . threshing .machine or permanent stack. At a demonstration the "huts" ' were taken to the thresher at the rate of 26 an hour.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 490, 25 March 1933, Page 7
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169NEW HARVESTING METHOD Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 490, 25 March 1933, Page 7
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