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required temperature more quickly ; (4) when 

 crops are short, half the building can do better 

 work than the whole, and costs less to run ; 

 (5) when the house wants aerating or sweeten- 

 ing, which is done by using the fans with 

 normal air, this can be done to one half of the 

 building, whilst the other half is still being 

 utilized for drying. Again, since by adjusting 

 the interior arrangements of the building 

 other crops, such as rubber, cacao, &c., can 

 be dried with equal success, one half can be 

 used for one crop and the other half for 

 another, as two products can seldom, if ever, 

 be dried together. 



Those interested in rubber estates should 

 note the following: "Whereas with the old 

 form of hand-made sheets and biscuits two 

 months was no unusual time for drying, this 

 operation can now be much better carried 

 out in a few days with the use of crepe 

 machinery and a simple method of hot air and 

 fan drying. The amount of costly accom- 

 modation that will be required by large 

 estates to cope with increasing crops, if the 

 drying is to take several weeks, makes it 

 obvious that means must immediately be 

 adopted to hasten this process (of drying 

 rubber)." 1 This applies equally to copra. 



On p. 400 is a plan showing the details 



1 Extract from the Annual Report of - the Rubber 

 Market for 1911, by Messrs. Gow, Wilson and Stanton, 

 Ltd., London. 



