Show CURING GRAIN IN A HOSPITAL Sanit armm for S ck cereals at port arthur ontario most of us aie famil ar with hospi atals and retreats where life and health may be restored 0 o human be ings and animals but a new and n te resting phase is a sanitarium for grain plants and flowers are subject to disease and as the loss ot crops throughout the united states alone has been estimated at some eighteen m 1 ion dollars it becomes imperative that an effort should be made to save the disease 1 grain very often farn ers lose the whole crop because 0 bo nure n wheat hosp ta ii compelled to harvest in wet weather to the new hop tal which la cocat ed at port arthur ontario the farm u may send the r grain to be treated and carefully nursed after passing out of the care of the experts the grain is said to be cleaner and more whole some than wheat wh ch has not been subjected to this process consales Con vales cent wheat has been stored away and kept in perfect health fo several ears when the wheat ill unto death ar rives a nurse places it in a bath of pure water where it is brushed and sc ared in machines made for the purpose until the grains are highly pol shed and in good shape for the mill it is then placed upon a bed made of screening and s objected to a jamming process first of hot then of cold a r until it is perfectly dry again the grain is subjected to an other cleaning process after wh ch it Is ready to be returned to the owner with the guarantee that it is thor hughly cured strange to say when it is weighed it seems to have lost nothing and being all grain and no chaff it weighs three or four pounds heavier to the bushel |