§ 64. Sir G. Foxasked the Minister of Agriculture to what extent plant has been provided in this country where cereal crops may be sent for artificial drying instead of being left in the fields exposed to the weather; and what steps are being taken by his Department to encourage the provision of more plants of this kind to deal with such grain as is not harvested by combines.
§ Mr. T. WilliamsIn the present season approximately 1,000 farm grain drying plants of rated capacity of 1–3 tons of grain per hour each were in use, in addition to many plants owned and operated by corn merchants and millers. My Department is doing all that is possible to secure maximum production and use of drying plants within the limits of available supplies of steel and timber. I would point out that grain properly stacked is proof against ordinary weather conditions and that the drying of unthreshed grain is impracticable.