DRYING AND HANDLING THE CHOP. 



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days, and shutting them during a storm. A look-out 

 should be kept for sudden showers, and it should be the 

 business of some one to attend to the shutting of the 

 ventilating doors whenever there is danger of injury by 

 rain. 



DRYING AND HANDLING THE CROP ON A LARGE SCALE. 



The form of the drying-house is of little importance, 

 so that the requisite facilities for unloading the brush, 

 piling it upon the racks, exposing it to currents of air, 



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Fig. 7. PLAN OF DKY-HOUSE. 



and at the same time preserving it from rain and damp, 

 and for removing it when cured, are provided. Probably 

 one of the most convenient and practically useful drying 

 arrangements in the country is that of Messrs. Johnson 

 & Bogardus, near Champaign, Illinois, whose farm of six 

 hundred acres, is all used for the cultivation of Broom- 



