Crop Drying Further evidence of the spread of crop drying,
as a regular part of farm routine and of the improvement in the processes, is to be gathered from experiences of this year's harvest. British pioneers of the South Acre Drying Station, near King's Lynn, who, as I have said before, have done and are doing very valuable work, say that they have quite-overcome the deficiency that was apparent in the first crop-driers pro- duced at Oxford : the unequal drying of the thinner and the more closely matted portions of green crops. This achievement is also claimed as one of the leading virtues of the Continental process. The principle of artificial drying is spreading so rapidly in Europe and proving so effective in East Anglia that the question becomes of national importance, and is worth the closest inquiry by the engineering research workers at Oxford to whom the Government has handed over this branch of agriculture. In the East Anglian drying plant the amount of lucerne that has passed through the drying plant approaches 10,000 tons, and the station will be working continuously till about the end of September.
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