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but which is liable at any time to get strong enough to play 

 havoc with your driers, unless you take the extra labor of 

 weighting them down in some manner. 



The method I now use practically surmounts each of these 



six difficulties. 



Briefly described, it is as follows : In one corner of each 

 drier, and about an inch from its edges, I insert a brass eye- 

 let. Through these eyelets I run a piece of light but strong 

 fish-line, about twenty-five to thirty feet in length. On each 

 end of fish-line I string, in the manner indicated, from 



seventy-five to one hundred driers. At each end of the cord 

 I have a small iron ring. The eyelets are of such a size that 

 the cord slips through them easily and is no hindrance in 

 using the driers. They remain strung through the whole 

 operation, both while laying the plant piles, changing the 

 driers and drying them. The outdoor part of the apparatus 

 consists of several upright posts about thirty feet apart — the 

 length of the line on which the driers are strung— into which 

 hooks are screwed two feet apart. When a set of driers has 

 been taken from a plant pile, and it is desired to dry them, I 

 put the rings at the ends of the cord over the hooks in the 

 upright posts and distribute the driers along the length of 

 the cord, they hanging to it by one corner. Two posts are 

 enough for three or four lines of driers, one above the other. 

 To bring the driers in and get them into a pile ready for the 

 next change, all that is necessary is to push them along the 

 line until they are in contact, and then unfasten the rings 

 from the hooks in the posts. 



The advantages which have so far appeared to me from the 



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use of this method are the following: 



1. It does away with half the labor of spreading the driers 



out to dry- 



2. It does away with nine-tenths of the labor of picking 



up the driers after they are dry. 



3. Both sides of the drier are exposed to the atmosphere, 

 and the length of time required to dry it is reduced. 



4. The driers do not come in contact with any surface 



