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Show Farmer Finds Blower Effective Kay Dryer Mounted on Cart, It's Easy to Move About Wet springs and early frosts aren't the headaches they once were to a growing number of farmers. farm-ers. For they have discovered that Immature grain can be cured just as effectively in storage buildings as in the field. The average farmer will find that mechanical drying of hay and grain is not as expensive as It would appear. ap-pear. Hay and grain saved will soon pay for equipment. Equipment for mechanical dry-fcig dry-fcig of grain is simple, and present farm structures can be converted easily, quickly and Inexpensively to handle this newest of farm production pro-duction chores. Farmers, who have hay curing equipment, will find that the same fan and motor I ;V r P) ' T 1 ' r- i ' ii Mounted on wheels, this motor mo-tor and blower takes the headaches head-aches out of curing Immature (rain for farmers. Here the equipment is shown being used for hay drying. can be used for both drying grain and finishing forage crops. The accompanying Illustration shows what can be done in the way of lnter-changing hay curing and grain drying equipment. When the hay curing season Is over, this farmer mounts his fan and motor on a cart and hauls them to a crib where they are put to use blowing moisture out of his immature corn. An outlet, into which he plugs his five-horsepower motor. Is located In an adjacent building. When double cribs are used, as In the case shown, the air blast enters through one end of the driveway. The opposite end is sealed up, and heavy paper placed on walls of the crib from the peak of the roof to the top of the corn layer. Openings around the fan and in the floor also are closed. In single cribs, wooden ducts or "A" frames are layed down the center of the floor and the air blown directly di-rectly Into them. Drying is successful without supplementary sup-plementary heat when the temperature temper-ature is 60 or above and the relative rela-tive humidity 65 per cent or below. be-low. If heat is used, buildings should be insulated and properly ventilated. Warm air is blown into storage sheds by motor driven fans. Thermostats and other controls con-trols automatically keep the temperature tem-perature and the flow of air at efficient drying levels. |