A Late Year.
Here is a severely accurate description of an autumnal half-hour on the banks of the Lea :— By my little bit of river, Where the mirrored branches shiver, Herb of willow,......
The Apparatus Is Not Complicated Or Expensive. A Circular...
cage surrounds a cone of hot-water pipes, of an inch diameter, coiled very closely, and the thin end of this cone of spiral pipes is hooded by a dunce's hat of iron. -A fan.......
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......
The Immense Advantages Of Crop-drying, If Feasible, Need...
elaborated. They are admirably stated under six heads in a Government pamphlet on the subject, issued from the Clarendon Press, though some strong points are there omitted.......
I Do Not .propose—i Have Not The Knowledge—to Weigh The
comparative methods of the different crop-driers. It is enough for the moment to, give the results of one of them. Colonel Lyon this year has dried wheat, oats and barley, and......
Doubtless It Has Yet To Be Proved How Far Any
crop-drier as yet perfected is economic ; but the cost is certainly not prohibitive and will be cheapened where electricity is available. Such a crop-drier as Colonel Lyon's,......
Country Life
i A 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.......
Perhaps The Most Promising Trial Of The Year Was Made
with barley. The barley was carried direct to the crop-drier, which fulfilled all the processes necessary for the grain. When it was threshed after some twenty-four hours in the......
First, A Word As To The History Of Crop-driers. The
first British patent was taken out in the 'sixties. Twenty years later Mr. Martin Sutton offered £100 for the best design. Two years ago, after many trials, a portable......
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