Country Life
iA CROP-DRYING TRIUMPH. I SPENT one of the wetter days of this wet season watching every detail, of an ingenious and scientific endeavour to cancel the farmer's chief handicap. The day began in the hay- field. A second crop of mixed rye-grass and clover was being cut in the rain. Without any delay beyond raking up into swathes for convenience in loading, the hay was piled on a fiat lorry, drawn by light tractors, one with ribbed wheels for work in the field, one with rubber wheels for use on the road. The hay was carried about two miles to the farmyard and there unloaded on to an elevator. From the top of the elevator it fell into a cage of a design and pattern worth the attention of all the farming community, whether it is chiefly interested in grain or grass.
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