24 SEPTEMBER 1927, Page 13

A good many other farmers have been making experiments :

especially Mr. Borlase Matthews, a great believer in electricity on the farm, and Mr. Tinker. The first worked in Southern England, the second in Scotland. A third is Colonel Lyon, of Appleton Hall,.Cheshire, whose most whole-hearted experiment I witnessed last week. His device is eclectic. As ought to happen with designs for the public good, one inventor has helped another ; and the accretion of knowledge has been so eonsiderable that we are probably within sight of a plan of crop-drying that will free farmers who can use it from the handicap of bad harvest weather.

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